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
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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