Analysis of You left me—Sire—two Legacies
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
You left me—Sire—two Legacies—
A Legacy of Love
A Heavenly Father would suffice
Had He the offer of—
You left me Boundaries of Pain—
Capacious as the Sea—
Between Eternity and Time—
Your Consciousness—and Me—
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111101100 010011 010010101 110101 11110011 010101 01010001 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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