Analysis of Two Travellers perishing in Snow
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Two Travellers perishing in Snow
The Forests as they froze
Together heard them strengthening
Each other with the words
That Heaven if Heaven—must contain
What Either left behind
And then the cheer too solemn grew
For language, and the wind
Long steps across the features took
That Love had touched the Morn
With reverential Hyacinth—
The taleless Days went on
Till Mystery impatient drew
And those They left behind
Led absent, were procured of Heaven
As Those first furnished, said—
| Scheme | XXXX XABA XXXX BAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 110010001 010111 01011100 110101 110110101 110101 01011101 110001 11010101 111101 101010 01111 11000101 011101 110001110 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 481 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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