This is an analysis of I Often Passed The Village by Emily Dickinson.

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I often passed the village…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXa aXXX XXXbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,6,
  • Metre: 1 1101010 1101010 110110100 1101110 10110110 01111100 1001010 10111 0101011 0101010 010101100 1111010 1111100 11000010 101010 10101 1101010100 11001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

than

Anaphora

and, it's