Analysis of Jesus! thy Crucifix

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Jesus! thy Crucifix
Enable thee to guess
The smaller size!

Jesus! thy second face
Mind thee in Paradise
Of ours!


Scheme XXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 10110 010111 0101 101101 11010 110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 115
Words 22
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 3
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 45
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 02, 2023

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