This is an analysis of I Meant To Have But Modest Needs by Emily Dickinson.
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I meant to have but modest needs—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X XXaX XXXX XabX XXXX XXXXXXXX bXXX
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,8,4,
- Metre: 1 110111010 111000100 0111000011 111100100 1101000010 010111 111100010000 1111010 1100001000100 1100001 01011111 11100010 0101010100 01000000 111101110 11110000 110101110 1111100 010101010 110000000 111100100 0101110 110001110 01010100 111100001 0001010 110000101 110000000
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 29
Anaphora
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