Analysis of One dignity delays for all
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
One dignity delays for all—
One mitred Afternoon—
None can avoid this purple—
None evade this Crown!
Coach, it insures, and footmen—
Chamber, and state, and throng—
Bells, also, in the village
As we ride grand along!
What dignified Attendants!
What service when we pause!
How loyally at parting
Their hundred hats they raise!
Her pomp surpassing ermine
When simple You, and I,
Present our meek escutheon
And claim the rank to die!
| Scheme | XAXX ABXB XXXX XCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11000111 1101 1101110 10111 110101 100101 1100010 111101 110010 110111 1100110 110111 0101010 110101 101011 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 433 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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