Analysis of The face I carry with me—last
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The face I carry with me—last—
When I go out of Time—
To take my Rank—by—in the West—
That face—will just be thine—
I'll hand it to the Angel—
That—Sir—was my Degree—
In Kingdoms—you have heard the Raised—
Refer to—possibly.
He'll take it—scan it—step aside—
Return—with such a crown
As Gabriel—never capered at—
And beg me put it on—
And then—he'll turn me round and round—
To an admiring sky—
As one that bore her Master's name—
Sufficient Royalty!
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XXXX XXXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 01110111 111111 11111001 111111 1111010 111101 01011101 011100 11111101 011101 11001011 011111 01111101 110101 11110101 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 495 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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