This is an analysis of If Your Nerve, Deny You by Emily Dickinson.

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If your Nerve, deny you—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 0110110 1011100 1110101 0110100 10101000 10101 101110 110100 011100 10110 01011000 10100
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 13