Analysis of One Anguish—in a Crowd

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



One Anguish—in a Crowd—
A Minor thing—it sounds—
And yet, unto the single Doe
Attempted of the Hounds

'Tis Terror as consummate
As Legions of Alarm
Did leap, full flanked, upon the Host—
'Tis Units—make the Swarm—

A Small Leech—on the Vitals—
The sliver, in the Lung—
The Bung out—of an Artery—
Are scarce accounted—Harms—

Yet might—by relation
To that Repealless thing—
A Being—impotent to end—
When once it has begun—


Scheme XAXA XXXX AXXX BXXB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 110001 010111 01100101 010101 1101100 110101 11110101 110101 011101 010001 01111100 110101 111010 1111 01010011 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 450
Words 73
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
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 March 05, 2023

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