This is an analysis of I Got So I Could Take His Name by Emily Dickinson.

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I got so I could take his name—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XbcX cbXbaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,7,
  • Metre: 1 1111110100 10000010 1110000110 11000010 11111101 110001 11111110000 11110100 111111010 010101 011100110 11000010 1101010100 111101000 010110000 11001100 11110 1001 1100001 110000000 110001 010100100 1010100 01011001 110101 11000 0111110000000
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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