This is an analysis of A Weight With Needles On The Pounds by Emily Dickinson.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 010101010 01111000 100101010 010000010 11010101 01010100 11011100 1100000100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

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