Analysis of Of all the souls that stand create
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Of all the souls that stand create
I have elected one.
When sense from spirit files away,
And subterfuge is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved sway,--
Behold the atom I Feferred
To all the lists of clay!
| Scheme | ABCB XDXD XCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011101 110101 11110101 01011 11110111 010101 01110011 110101 11011101 01111 0101011 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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