Analysis of Crisis is a Hair
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Crisis is a Hair
Toward which the forces creep
Past which forces retrograde
If it come in sleep
To suspend the Breath
Is the most we can
Ignorant is it Life or Death
Nicely balancing.
Let an instant push
Or an Atom press
Or a Circle hesitate
In Circumference
It—may jolt the Hand
That adjusts the Hair
That secures Eternity
From presenting—Here—
| Scheme | ABXB CXCX XXXX XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 10101 0110101 111010 11101 10101 10111 10011111 10100 11101 11101 101010 0010 11101 10101 1010100 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 344 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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