Analysis of After a hundred years
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,--
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace.
Weeds triumphant ranged,
Strangers strolled and spelled
At the lone orthography
Of the elder dead.
Winds of summer fields
Recollect the way,--
Instinct picking up the key
Dropped by memory.
| Scheme | XXXX XXAX XXAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100101 1101 10010101 10011 10101 10101 1010100 10101 11101 0101 1010101 11100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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