Analysis of If I shouldn't be alive
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
If I shouldn't be alive
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.
If I couldn't thank you,
Being fast asleep,
You will know I'm trying
Why my Granite lip!
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1110101 10101 101011 001001 111011 10101 111110 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 181 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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