Analysis of I Died For Beauty
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth - the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a-night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 11110111 010001 11111111 010101 11010111 110101 01110111 110111 0111101 110101 010111101 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 373 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
"I Died for Beauty" is a poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the idea of the afterlife and the concept of eternal beauty.
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