Analysis of Peace is a fiction of our Faith
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Peace is a fiction of our Faith—
The Bells a Winter Night
Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound
That never did alight.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 110101101 010101 10010111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 121 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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