This is an analysis of As If The Sea Should Part by Emily Dickinson.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 100111 1101010 1100100001 1001010 0100010 10000100 010101010 100000100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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