Analysis of As Children bid the Guest "Good Night"
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
As Children bid the Guest "Good Night"
And then reluctant turn—
My flowers raise their pretty lips—
Then put their nightgowns on.
As children caper when they wake
Merry that it is Morn—
My flowers from a hundred cribs
Will peep, and prance again.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 010101 11011101 11111 11010111 101111 11010101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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