Analysis of Glee—The great storm is over
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Glee—The great storm is over—
Four—have recovered the Land—
Forty—gone down together—
Into the boiling Sand—
Ring—for the Scant Salvation—
Toll—for the bonnie Souls—
Neighbor—and friend—and Bridegroom—
Spinning upon the Shoals—
How they will tell the Story—
When Winter shake the Door—
Till the Children urge—
But the Forty—
Did they—come back no more?
Then a softness—suffuse the Story—
And a silence—the Teller's eye—
And the Children—no further question—
And only the Sea—reply—
Scheme | ABAB CDXD EFXEF EGCG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110 1101001 1011010 010101 1101010 110101 100101 100101 1111010 110101 10101 1010 111111 101001010 00100101 001011010 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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