Analysis of To make a prairie (1755)
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
| Scheme | AABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Boy Named Sue |
| Metre | 1101011010011 110001 01 010111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 130 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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