Analysis of My life closed twice
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
My life closed twice before its close--
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110111 110111 1010001 010111 11110101 111101 101111110 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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