Analysis of I felt a cleaving in my mind
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I felt a cleaving in my mind
As if my brain had split;
I tried to match it, seam by seam,
But could not make them fit.
The thought behind I strove to join
Unto the thought before,
But sequence ravelled out of reach
Like balls upon a floor.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101011 111111 11111111 111111 01011111 100101 1101111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 252 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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