Analysis of Soil of Flint, if steady tilled
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Soil of Flint, if steady tilled—
Will refund by Hand—
Seed of Palm, by Libyan Sun
Fructified in Sand—
Scheme | AABA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
Metre | 1111101 10111 11111001 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 112 |
Words | 21 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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