Analysis of I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading--treading--till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through--
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum--
Kept beating--beating--till I thought
My Mind was going numb--
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space--began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here--
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down--
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing--then--
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBCB XDXD XXXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 110100011 010101 11010111 111101 0111010 010101 11010111 111101 01111101 010111 11111101 110111 11010001 010111 01010111 11001 01010101 011101 010111001 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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