Analysis of As One does Sickness over
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
As One does Sickness over
In convalescent Mind,
His scrutiny of Chances
By blessed Health obscured—
As One rewalks a Precipice
And whittles at the Twig
That held Him from Perdition
Sown sidewise in the Crag
A Custom of the Soul
Far after suffering
Identity to question
For evidence't has been—
| Scheme | XXXX XABA XXBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1111010 00101 1100110 11101 1110100 01101 11111 11001 010101 110100 0100110 1100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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