This is an analysis of Chartless by Emily Dickinson.

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 110101 110101 111110101 110110 110101 1100010 11011001 1001010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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