This is an analysis of How Human Nature dotes by Emily Dickinson.

How Human Nature dotes
On what it can't detect.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba bXbX acXXc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
  • Metre: 1101010 110101 01010101 010001 010001 011101 11000101 010100 001101 100000 111 11101 010100
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 13

Anaphora

prospective, of