Analysis of The Spider holds a Silver Ball
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The spider holds a Silver Ball
In unperceived Hands--
And dancing softly to Himself
His Yarn of Pearl--unwinds--
He plies from Nought to Nought--
In unsubstantial Trade--
Supplants our Tapestries with His--
In half the period--
An Hour to rear supreme
His Continents of Light--
Then dangle from the Housewife's Broom--
His Boundaries--forgot--
| Scheme | XAXA BBXB XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 01010101 011 01010101 11111 111111 011 011010011 010100 1101101 110011 1101011 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 340 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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