Analysis of He fumbles at your spirit
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He stuns you by degrees,
Prepares your brittle substance
For the ethereal blow,
By fainter hammers, further heard,
Then nearer, then so slow
Your breath has time to straighten,
Your brain to bubble cool, --
Deals one imperial thunderbolt
That scalps your naked soul.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1101110 110101 01111101 111101 0111010 1001001 11010101 110111 1111110 111101 11010010 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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