Analysis of I stepped from plank to plank
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I stepped from plank to plank
So slow and cautiously;
The stars about my head I felt,
About my feet the sea.
I knew not but the next
Would be my final inch,--
This gave me that precarious gait
Some call experience.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 111111 110100 01011111 011101 111101 111101 111101001 110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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