Analysis of A Shade upon the mind there passes
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A Shade upon the mind there passes
As when on Noon
A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses
Remembering
That some there be too numb to notice
Oh God
Why give if Thou must take away
The Loved?
| Scheme | AXAX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101110 1111 0101011 0100 111111110 11 11111101 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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