Analysis of It's like the light, --
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
It's like the light, --
A fashionless delight
It's like the bee, --
A dateless melody.
It's like the woods,
Private like breeze,
Phraseless, yet it stirs
The proudest trees.
It's like the morning, --
Best when it's done, --
The everlasting clocks
Chime noon.
| Scheme | AABB XCXC XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1101 0101 1101 01100 1101 1011 1111 0101 11010 1111 00101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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