Analysis of A loss of something ever felt I
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A loss of something ever felt I—
The first that I could recollect
Bereft I was—of what I knew not
Too young that any should suspect
A Mourner walked among the children
I notwithstanding went about
As one bemoaning a Dominion
Itself the only Prince cast out—
Elder, Today, a session wiser
And fainter, too, as Wiseness is—
I find myself still softly searching
For my Delinguent Palaces—
And a Suspicion, like a Finger
Touches my Forehead now and then
That I am looking oppositely
For the site of the Kingdom of Heaven—
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DXXX DXXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 011101011 0111101 011111111 11110101 010101010 1010101 110100010 01010111 100101010 0101111 11111010 111100 000101010 10110101 111101 1011010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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