Analysis of The Chariot
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.
We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.
We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible.
The cornice but a mound.
Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
Scheme | XAXA XBXA XCXC XDXD XBXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111111 110111 010111001 00100 11011111 011101 11001101 110100 11011101 110101 11011101 110101 11010111 010101 01110100 01101 11110011 110101 11010101 0010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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