Analysis of Faith—is the Pierless Bridge
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Faith—is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not—
Too slender for the eye
It bears the Soul as bold
As it were rocked in Steel
With Arms of Steel at either side—
It joins—behind the Veil
To what, could We presume
The Bridge would cease to be
To Our far, vacillating Feet
A first Necessity.
| Scheme | XAXX XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 11011 010111 10011111 110101 110111 110101 11111101 110101 111101 011111 11011001 010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 327 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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