Analysis of In rags mysterious as these
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
In rags mysterious as these
The shining Courtiers go—
Veiling the purple, and the plumes—
Veiling the ermine so.
Smiling, as they request an alms—
At some imposing door!
Smiling when we walk barefoot
Upon their golden floor!
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01010011 0101001 10010001 100101 10110111 110101 101111 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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