Analysis of They say that 'time assuages,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
They say that 'time assuages,'--
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no malady.
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111 110101 110010010 11111 1101110 110100 1111111 111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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