Analysis of More Life—went out—when He went
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
More Life—went out—when He went
Than Ordinary Breath—
Lit with a finer Phosphor—
Requiring in the Quench—
A Power of Renowned Cold,
The Climate of the Grave
A Temperature just adequate
So Anthracite, to live—
For some—an Ampler Zero—
A Frost more needle keen
Is necessary, to reduce
The Ethiop within.
Others—extinguish easier—
A Gnat's minutest Fan
Sufficient to obliterate
A Tract of Citizen—
Whose Peat lift—amply vivid—
Ignores the solemn News
That Popocatapel exists—
Or Etna's Scarlets, Choose—
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Quatrain (20%) |
| Metre | 1111111 11001 110101 0100001 0101011 010101 01001100 11011 111110 011101 1100101 0101 10010100 0111 0101010 011100 1111010 010101 1101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 519 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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