Analysis of What Inn is this
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
What Inn is this
Where for the night
Peculiar Traveller comes?
Who is the Landlord?
Where the maids?
Behold, what curious rooms!
No ruddy fires on the hearth—
No brimming Tankards flow—
Necromancer! Landlord!
Who are these below?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHDH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1111 1101 0101001 1101 101 0111001 11010101 11011 1001 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 232 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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