Analysis of My period had come for Prayer
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
My period had come for Prayer—
No other Art—would do—
My Tactics missed a rudiment—
Creator—Was it you?
God grows above—so those who pray
Horizons—must ascend—
And so I stepped upon the North
To see this Curious Friend—
His House was not—no sign had He—
By Chimney—nor by Door
Could I infer his Residence—
Vast Prairies of Air
Unbroken by a Settler—
Were all that I could see—
Infinitude—Had'st Thou no Face
That I might look on Thee?
The Silence condescended—
Creation stopped—for Me—
But awed beyond my errand—
I worshipped—did not "pray"—
| Scheme | ABXB CDXD EXXA XEXE BEXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11001111 110111 11010100 010111 11011111 010101 01110101 1111001 11111111 110111 11011100 11011 01010100 011111 111111 111111 0101 010111 1101110 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 574 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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