Analysis of Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him--
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him--
Tell him the page I didn't write;
Tell him I only said the syntax,
And left the verb and the pronoun out.
Tell him just how the fingers hurried
Then how they waded, slow, slow, slow-
And then you wished you had eyes in your pages,
So you could see what moved them so.
'Tell him it wasn't a practised writer,
You guessed, from the way the sentence toiled;
You could hear the bodice tug, behind you,
As if it held but the might of a child;
You almost pitied it, you, it worked so.
Tell him--No, you may quibble there,
For it would split his heart to know it,
And then you and I were silenter.
'Tell him night finished before we finished
And the old clock kept neighing 'day!'
And you got sleepy and begged to be ended--
What could it hinder so, to say?
Tell him just how she sealed you, cautious
But if he ask where you are hid
Until to-morrow,--happy letter!
Gesture, coquette, and shake your head!'
Scheme | XXXX XAXA BXXXAXXB XCXCXXBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101011 11011101 11110101 010100101 111101010 11110111 01111110110 11111111 111100110 111010101 1110101011 1111101101 11111111 11111101 111111111 0110101 1111001110 0011111 01110011110 11110111 111111110 11111111 011101010 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 922 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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