Analysis of If this is "fading"
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
If this is "fading"
Oh let me immediately "fade"!
If this is "dying"
Bury me, in such a shroud of red!
If this is "sleep,"
On such a night
How proud to shut the eye!
Good Evening, gentle Fellow men!
Peacock presumes to die!
| Scheme | ABACDEFGF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 11110 111010001 11110 101010111 1111 1101 111101 11010101 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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