Analysis of Myself was formed—a Carpenter
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Myself was formed—a Carpenter—
An unpretending time
My Plane—and I, together wrought
Before a Builder came—
To measure our attainments—
Had we the Art of Boards
Sufficiently developed—He'd hire us
At Halves—
My Tools took Human—Faces—
The Bench, where we had toiled—
Against the Man—persuaded—
We—Temples build—I said—
| Scheme | XXXX AAAA AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1110100 111 11010101 010101 110101 110111 01000101101 11 1111010 011111 0101010 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 345 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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