Analysis of There is a Languor of the Life

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



There is a Languor of the Life
More imminent than Pain—
'Tis Pain's Successor—When the Soul
Has suffered all it can—

A Drowsiness—diffuses—
A Dimness like a Fog
Envelops Consciousness—
As Mists—obliterate a Crag.

The Surgeon—does not blanch—at pain
His Habit—is severe—
But tell him that it ceased to feel—
The Creature lying there—

And he will tell you—skill is late—
A Mightier than He—
Has ministered before Him—
There's no Vitality.


Scheme XAXX XBXB AXXX XCXC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1101101 110011 11010101 110111 0100010 01101 010100 1101001 01011111 110101 11111111 010101 01111111 010011 11011 110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 463
Words 74
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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