Analysis of Crumbling is not an instant's Act
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Crumbling is not an instant's Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays.
'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust—
Ruin is formal—Devil's work
Consecutive and slow—
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping—is Crash's law.
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 10011111 00101 1100 11001 1101101 010011 0100010 10101 10110101 010001 10110111 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 300 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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