Analysis of This is the land the sunset washes,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
This is the land the sunset washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western mystery!
Night after night her purple traffic
Strews the landing with opal bales;
Merchantmen poise upon horizons,
Dip, and vanish with fairy sails.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010110 110110101 111110110 11010100 110101010 10101101 100101010 10101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 283 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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