Analysis of Hope is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
| Scheme | XXXX ABAB XCCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1101110 110001 01010101 010111 01000111 011101 11010101 111101 1110011 010101 11000100 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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