Analysis of Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre—
Without Design
Or Order, or Apparent Action—
Maintain—

The Sun—upon a Morning meets them—
The Wind—
No nearer Neighbor—have they—
But God—

The Acre gives them—Place—
They—Him—Attention of Passer by—
Of Shadow, or of Squirrel, haply—
Or Boy—

What Deed is Theirs unto the General Nature—
What Plan
They severally—retard—or further—
Unknown—


Scheme AXXX XXXX XXXX AXAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010010 0101 110101010 01 010101011 01 1101011 11 010111 110101101 1111101 11 111110010010 11 110001110 01
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 408
Words 59
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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