I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way
The Stars about my Head I felt
About my Feet the Sea.

I knew not but the next
Would be my final inch —
This gave me that precarious Gait
Some call Experience.

Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem I stepped from Plank to Plank

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