Analysis of Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
That arise and set about Us—
Other Tragedy
Perish in the Recitation—
This—the best enact
When the Audience is scattered
And the Boxes shut—
"Hamlet" to Himself were Hamlet—
Had not Shakespeare wrote—
Though the "Romeo" left no Record
Of his Juliet,
It were infinite enacted
In the Human Heart—
Only Theatre recorded
Owner cannot shut—
| Scheme | XXX XXXA AXXX BXBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
| Metre | 1101010101 10101011 10100 1000010 10101 10100110 00101 10101010 1111 10101101 1110 10100010 00101 10100010 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 391 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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