Analysis of I cross till I am weary

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



I cross till I am weary
A Mountain—in my mind—
More Mountains—then a Sea—
More Seas—And then
A Desert—find—

And My Horizon blocks
With steady—drifting—Grains
Of unconjectured quantity—
As Asiatic Rains—

Nor this—defeat my Pace—
It hinder from the West
But as an Enemy's Salute
One hurrying to Rest—

What merit had the Goal—
Except there intervene
Faint Doubt—and far Competitor—
To jeopardize the Gain?

At last—the Grace in sight—
I shout unto my feet—
I offer them the Whole of Heaven
The instant that we meet—

They strive—and yet delay—
They perish—Do we die—
Or is this Death's Experiment—
Reversed—in Victory?


Scheme ABAXB XCAC XDXD XXXX XEXE XXXA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1111110 010011 110101 1101 0101 010101 110101 11100 10101 110111 110101 11110001 110011 110101 01101 11010100 11001 110101 111011 110101110 010111 110101 110111 11110100 010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 651
Words 104
Sentences 3
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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