Analysis of I like to see it lap the miles,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step
Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare
To fit its sides, and crawl between,
Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a star,
Stop--docile and omnipotent--
At its own stable door.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 010101 01110111 010101 0101110 001001 01010111 010101 11110101 010101 010110 110111 0111 1100101 11000100 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 444 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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