Analysis of I got so I could take his name

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



I got so I could take his name—
Without—Tremendous gain—
That Stop-sensation—on my Soul—
And Thunder—in the Room—

I got so I could walk across
That Angle in the floor,
Where he turned so, and I turned—how—
And all our Sinew tore—

I got so I could stir the Box—
In which his letters grew
Without that forcing, in my breath—
As Staples—driven through—

Could dimly recollect a Grace—
I think, they call it "God"—
Renowned to ease Extremity—
When Formula, had failed—

And shape my Hands—
Petition's way,
Tho' ignorant of a word
That Ordination—utters—

My Business, with the Cloud,
If any Power behind it, be,
Not subject to Despair—
It care, in some remoter way,
For so minute affair
As Misery—
Itself, too vast, for interrupting—more—


Scheme XXXX XAXA XBXB XXCX XDXX XCEDECA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 010101 11010111 010001 11111101 110001 11110111 011011 11111101 011101 01110011 110101 1100101 111111 01110100 110011 0111 11 1100101 101010 110101 110100111 101101 110111 111001 1100 011110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 763
Words 130
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Emily Dickinson

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