Analysis of To own the Art within the Soul
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
To own the Art within the Soul
The Soul to entertain
With Silence as a Company
And Festival maintain
Is an unfurnished Circumstance
Possession is to One
As an Estate perpetual
Or a reduceless Mine.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11010101 01101 11010100 010001 11110 010111 11010100 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 198 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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