Analysis of We should not mind so small a flower
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
We should not mind so small a flower—
Except it quiet bring
Our little garden that we lost
Back to the Lawn again.
So spicy her Carnations nod—
So drunken, reel her Bees—
So silver steal a hundred flutes
From out a hundred trees—
That whoso sees this little flower
By faith may clear behold
The Bobolinks around the throne
And Dandelions gold.
| Scheme | AXXX XBXB ACXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 111111010 011101 101010111 110101 11000101 110101 11010101 110101 11111010 111101 010101 01001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 348 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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