Analysis of I live with Him—I see His face
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I live with Him—I see His face—
I go no more away
For Visitor—or Sundown—
Death's single privacy
The Only One—forestalling Mine—
And that—by Right that He
Presents a Claim invisible—
No wedlock—granted Me—
I live with Him—I hear His Voice—
I stand alive—Today—
To witness to the Certainty
Of Immortality—
Taught Me—by Time—the lower Way—
Conviction—Every day—
That Life like This—is stopless—
Be Judgment—what it may—
Scheme | ABXC XCXC XBCC BBAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 11111111 111101 110011 110100 0101101 011111 10010100 11101 11111111 110101 11010100 10100 11110101 0101001 111111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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