Analysis of Exclusion (The soul selects her own society)
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.
Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing
At her low gate;
Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling
Upon her mat.
I've known her from an ample nation
Choose one
Then close the valves of her attention
Like stone.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101010100 1101 10010100 0111 01110110 1011 011100110 0101 110111010 11 110110010 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 323 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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