Analysis of The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01110111 0100111 01011101 011111 01010111 111101 10111011 01010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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