Analysis of Nature, the gentlest mother,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Nature, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest,
Her admonition mild
In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
How fair her conversation,
A summer afternoon,--
Her household, her assembly;
And when the sun goes down
Her voice among the aisles
Incites the timid prayer
Of the minutest cricket,
The most unworthy flower.
When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky
With infinite affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
Scheme | ABBB XCXC DXXX XEXA XXXX DEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 10010010 010111 01101 00101 010001 110011 0101010 110101 110010 01001 010010 010111 010101 010101 10110 0101010 110101 111101 11011101 110101 1100010 011 01010101 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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