I make His Crescent fill or lack
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I make His Crescent fill or lack—
His Nature is at Full
Or Quarter—as I signify—
His Tides—do I control—
He holds superior in the Sky
Or gropes, at my Command
Behind inferior Clouds—or round
A Mist's slow Colonnade—
But since We hold a Mutual Disc—
And front a Mutual Day—
Which is the Despot, neither knows—
Nor Whose—the Tyranny—
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAX AXXX XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 352 |
Words | 62 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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