Analysis of A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A clock stopped -- not the mantel's
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still.
An awe came on the trinket!
The figures hunched with pain,
Then quivered out of decimals
Into degreeless noon.
It will not stir for doctors,
This pendulum of snow;
The shopman importunes it,
While cool, concernless No
Nods from the gilded pointers,
Nods from seconds slim,
Decades of arrogance between
The dial life and him.
| Scheme | ABXB XXAX ACXC ADXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 011101 1101 1101010 111101 1111010 010111 1111100 0111 1111110 110011 0111 1111 1101010 11101 01110001 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 458 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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