Analysis of Nature and God—I neither knew
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Nature and God—I neither knew
Yet Both so well knew me
They startled, like Executors
Of My identity.
Yet Neither told—that I could learn—
My Secret as secure
As Herschel's private interest
Or Mercury's affair—
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 10011101 111111 11010100 110100 11011111 110101 1101010 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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