Analysis of I'm ceded—I've stopped being Theirs
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I'm ceded—I've stopped being Theirs—
The name They dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church
Is finished using, now,
And They can put it with my Dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools,
I've finished threading—too—
Baptized, before, without the choice,
But this time, consciously, of Grace—
Unto supremest name—
Called to my Full—The Crescent dropped—
Existence's whole Arc, filled up,
With one small Diadem.
My second Rank—too small the first—
Crowned—Crowing—on my Father's breast—
A half unconscious Queen—
But this time—Adequate—Erect,
With Will to choose, or to reject,
And I choose, just a Crown—
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 01110111 11000101 110101 01111111 1100111 110101 01010101 11110011 1011 11110101 11111 11110 11011101 11011101 01101 11110001 11111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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