Analysis of Twas Crisis—All the length had passed
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
'Twas Crisis—All the length had passed—
That dull—benumbing time
There is in Fever or Event—
And now the Chance had come—
The instant holding in its claw
The privilege to live
Or warrant to report the Soul
The other side the Grave.
The Muscles grappled as with leads
That would not let the Will—
The Spirit shook the Adamant—
But could not make it feel.
The Second poised—debated—shot—
Another had begun—
And simultaneously, a Soul
Escaped the House unseen—
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 1111 11010101 010111 01010011 01011 11010101 010101 01010111 111101 01010100 111111 01010101 010101 00100001 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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