Analysis of Most she touched me by her muteness
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Most she touched me by her muteness—
Most she won me by the way
She presented her small figure—
Plea itself—for Charity—
Were a Crumb my whole possession—
Were there famine in the land—
Were it my resource from starving—
Could I such a plea withstand—
Not upon her knee to thank me
Sank this Beggar from the Sky—
But the Crumb partook—departed—
And returned On High—
I supposed—when sudden
Such a Praise began
'Twas as Space sat singing
To herself—and men—
'Twas the Winged Beggar—
Afterward I learned
To her Benefactor
Making Gratitude
Scheme | XXAB CDED BFXF CXEX AXAX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111101 1111101 10100110 1011100 00111010 0110001 01110110 1110101 10101111 1110101 1011010 00111 101110 10101 111110 10101 10110 10011 10100 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 557 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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