Analysis of Purple—is fashionable twice
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Purple—is fashionable twice—
This season of the year,
And when a soul perceives itself
To be an Emperor.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110001 110101 01010101 111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 113 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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