This is an analysis of If I Should Die by Emily Dickinson.

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If I should die,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXaXbXXXXXXXab
  • Stanza lengths: 1,18,
  • Metre: 1 0111 111100 1111010 11110 11110 101100100 0111110 11110010 1101110 010101 11011101 1101010 11001000 1111010 0101010 11011000 1100110 100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

should

Anaphora

and