Analysis of This Consciousness that is aware
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
This Consciousness that is aware
Of Neighbors and the Sun
Will be the one aware of Death
And that itself alone
Is traversing the interval
Experience between
And most profound experiment
Appointed unto Men—
How adequate unto itself
Its properties shall be
Itself unto itself and none
Shall make discovery.
Adventure most unto itself
The Soul condemned to be—
Attended by a single Hound
Its own identity.
| Scheme | XAXX XXXX BCAC BCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11001101 110001 11010111 010101 10100100 010001 01010100 010101 11001001 110011 01100101 110100 01011001 010111 01010101 110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 399 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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