Emily Dickinson's lyrical poem, Success is counted sweetest, was written in 1859 and was named that because it was the first line of the poem, which was written without a title, it doesn’t refer to the civil war because it happens 2 years after this was written. Success is counted sweetest was written in iambic trimiter with the exception of the fifth line, which is in iambic tetrameter, and also the first and third lines, which have an extra syllable at the end. The rhyme scheme of the poem is abcb, and it has heavy use of alliteration with succeed, sweetest, and succeed in the first stanza and distant, strains, and burst in the third which use the s sound, succeed, counted, succeed, comprehend, nectar, and requires in the first stanza and can, clear, and victory in the second stanza which all use the k sound, took today and tell in the second stanza and distant, strain, triumph and burst in the third which all use the t sound, forbidden, dying, defeated, and distant on the third which all use the d sound, host and who in the second stanza and he whose in the third stanza which use the h sound.
In Emily Dickinson's “Success is counted sweetest,” she wrote about the nature of success and who appreciates it more. The poem illustrates the theme that failures appreciate success more than anyone else because of the first, second stanzas, and third.
The first stanza begins like this, “Success is counted sweetest / by those who ne'er succeed / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need,” which demonstrates Emily Dickinson theme of only failures can understand success because it literally states that success tastes the sweetest to those who never succeed and that you appreciate success more if you have to struggle to get it, The poem demonstrates this by the tone of the first statement which seems more uninvolved and impersonal, as if she was stating a fact, and because she uses the word nectar which is a drink of the gods so its sounds like she's describing a...