Analysis of I make His Crescent fill or lack
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I make His Crescent fill or lack—
His Nature is at Full
Or Quarter—as I signify—
His Tides—do I control—
He holds superior in the Sky
Or gropes, at my Command
Behind inferior Clouds—or round
A Mist's slow Colonnade—
But since We hold a Mutual Disc—
And front a Mutual Day—
Which is the Despot, neither knows—
Nor Whose—the Tyranny—
| Scheme | XXAX AXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111 110111 1101110 111101 110100001 111101 010100111 01101 111101001 0101001 11010101 110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 352 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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