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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