Dickinson's writing style

Emily Dickinson's writing style includes different things from many hyphen's (or dashes according to Bloom's) to  times when some of her thoughts come unspoken and the reader has to think about the story in order to figure out what she intended to have there.  In her poems she would put countless dashes, which according to Deirdre Fagan were "quite deliberate" and intended to be there.  To me, when a dash is used it means there is a brief pause in the reading to get yourself caught up on breath.  This also gives the audience time to think about what was just said and get themselves caught up.  I am not meaning pause for like five minutes and give everyone the time to go get refreshments and use the facilities, I just mean like fifteen seconds to get a quick breath of air before continuing on.  I am starting to understand that this is not what Emily intended.  From the sounds of it, she used hyphens like we use commas because they were everywhere.  In the second poem from her series Life, she used a hyphen in the poem.  If I were to say that to someone, they would not be very impressed and quite honestly I wouldn't blame them, but what is impressive about how Emily worked a hyphen into this poem is the fact that this poem was only eight lines long with roughly five words per line.  That gives her only forty words to figure out how and when to use a dash.  Granted she probably was in a habit of using them and it came easy to her like commas are for us, but still that is impressive in my eyes.  She wrote,

"OUR share of night to bear,
Our share of morning,
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning.
Here a star, and there a star,	5
Some lose their way.
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards—day!"

To me, in this poem she used the dash to help in the rhyme scheme because I do not know very many people that use "Afterwards--day!" instead of "tomorrow" in their every day vocabulary.  I know that I personally have never said it that way and do not plan to anytime soon, but that is why it was so easy for me to figure out why she used the dash.  And as I already said, I believe she used the dash in this poem to help with the rhyme scheme and it made what she meant rhyme.  I think that what she meant by those two words separated by a dash was the word tomorrow because the following day after a night time is called tomorrow and after night time comes day so Afterwards day.  This makes sense to me and I hope makes sense to anyone reading this.  As I still stand strong about my theory that Emily Dickinson used dash's to create a brief moment of pause, I did not find one to show and was not what was intended by the dash in this poem.

Dickinson, Emily. "2. “Our Share of Night to Bear." Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Bartleby.com. Web. 01 May 2012.

Fagan, Deirdre. "Emily Dickinson's Unutterable Word." Emily Dickinson Journal 14, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 70–75. Quoted as "Emily Dickinson's Unutterable Word" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Emily Dickinson, New Edition, Bloom's Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2008.Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc.