Analysis of She slept beneath a tree
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
She slept beneath a tree—
Remembered but by me.
I touched her Cradle mute—
She recognized the foot—
Put on her carmine suit
And see!
| Scheme | AABCBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 010111 110101 11001 110101 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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