This is an analysis of I Had Some Things That I Called Mine by Emily Dickinson.

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I had some things that I called mine—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXX XbXb acXc XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 1111111100 111110 11000101 011100 0100110 110101 1101010 110101 0100010 010100 1100100 111100 1101110000 1100010 111100 101100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 17

Anaphora

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