Analysis of I'm sorry for the Dead—Today

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



I'm sorry for the Dead—Today—
It's such congenial times
Old Neighbors have at fences—
It's time o' year for Hay.

And Broad—Sunburned Acquaintance
Discourse between the Toil—
And laugh, a homely species
That makes the Fences smile—

It seems so straight to lie away
From all of the noise of Fields—
The Busy Carts—the fragrant Cocks—
The Mower's Metre—Steals—

A Trouble lest they're homesick—
Those Farmers—and their Wives—
Set separate from the Farming—
And all the Neighbors' lives—

A Wonder if the Sepulchre
Don't feel a lonesome way—
When Men—and Boys—and Carts—and June,
Go down the Fields to "Hay"—


Scheme AXXA XXXX AXXX XXXX XAXA
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Quatrain  (20%)
Metre 11010101 110101 1101110 111111 011010 100101 0101010 110101 11111101 1110111 01010101 01101 010111 110011 1101010 010101 010101 110101 11010101 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 633
Words 101
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 2023

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