This is an analysis of Before The Ice Is In The Pools by Emily Dickinson.

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Before the ice is in the pools—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 010100010 010101 1101111 0101010 0101110 010101 100110 00101 111010 101010 101010 101100 11110010 1111100 001110 10101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 17

Anaphora

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