Analysis of T was just this time last year I died.
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
'T was just this time last year I died.
I know I heard the corn,
When I was carried by the farms,--
It had the tassels on.
I thought how yellow it would look
When Richard went to mill;
And then I wanted to get out,
But something held my will.
I thought just how red apples wedged
The stubble's joints between;
And carts went stooping round the fields
To take the pumpkins in.
I wondered which would miss me least,
And when Thanksgiving came,
If father'd multiply the plates
To make an even sum.
And if my stocking hung too high,
Would it blur the Christmas glee,
That not a Santa Claus could reach
The altitude of me?
But this sort grieved myself, and so
I thought how it would be
When just this time, some perfect year,
Themselves should come to me.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XXXX XXXX XBXB XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 111111111 111101 11110101 11011 11110111 110111 01110111 110111 11111101 01101 01110101 110100 11011111 01101 1101001 111101 01110111 1110101 11010111 01011 1111101 111111 11111011 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 771 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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