I got so I could take his name
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I got so I could take his name—
Without—Tremendous gain—
That Stop-sensation—on my Soul—
And Thunder—in the Room—
I got so I could walk across
That Angle in the floor,
Where he turned so, and I turned—how—
And all our Sinew tore—
I got so I could stir the Box—
In which his letters grew
Without that forcing, in my breath—
As Staples—driven through—
Could dimly recollect a Grace—
I think, they call it "God"—
Renowned to ease Extremity—
When Formula, had failed—
And shape my Hands—
Petition's way,
Tho' ignorant of a word
That Ordination—utters—
My Business, with the Cloud,
If any Power behind it, be,
Not subject to Despair—
It care, in some remoter way,
For so minute affair
As Misery—
Itself, too vast, for interrupting—more—
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB XXCX XDXX XCEDECA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 130 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7 |
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