Analysis of Sweet—safe—Houses
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Sweet—safe—Houses—Glad—gay—Houses—
Sealed so stately tight—
Lids of Steel—on Lids of Marble—
Locking Bare feet out—
Brooks of Plush—in Banks of Satin
Not so softly fall
As the laughter—and the whisper—
From their People Pearl—
No Bald Death—affront their Parlors—
No Bold Sickness come
To deface their Stately Treasures—
Anguish—and the Tomb—
Hum by—in Muffled Coaches—
Lest they—wonder Why—
Any—for the Press of Smiling—
Interrupt—to die—
Scheme | XXXX XXXX AXAX XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 11101110 11101 11111110 10111 11101110 11101 10100010 11101 11101110 11101 10111010 10001 1101010 11101 10101110 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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