Analysis of I taste a liquor never brewed
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!
Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
When the landlord turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!
Till seraphs swing their snowy hats,
And saints to windows run,
To see the little tippler
Leaning against the sun!
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB XCBC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11010101 11101 11010101 11110 0101111 0111 10110101 111101 10110101 11011 1100111 111101 1111101 011101 110101 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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