Analysis of The Day that I was crowned
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Day that I was crowned
Was like the other Days—
Until the Coronation came—
And then—'twas Otherwise—
As Carbon in the Coal
And Carbon in the Gem
Are One—and yet the former
Were dull for Diadem—
I rose, and all was plain—
But when the Day declined
Myself and It, in Majesty
Were equally—adorned—
The Grace that I—was chose—
To Me—surpassed the Crown
That was the Witness for the Grace—
'Twas even that 'twas Mine—
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 011111 110101 0100101 01110 110001 010001 1101010 01110 110111 110101 1010100 010001 011111 110101 11010101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 437 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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