Analysis of Fame of Myself, to justify
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Fame of Myself, to justify,
All other Plaudit be
Superfluous—An Incense
Beyond Necessity—
Fame of Myself to lack—Although
My Name be else Supreme—
This were an Honor honorless—
A futile Diadem—
| Scheme | XABA XXBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 111110 110101 10101 010100 111111 111101 101101 01010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 206 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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