This is an analysis of On This Wondrous Sea by Emily Dickinson.

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On this wondrous sea…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXXXX bXXXab
  • Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,
  • Metre: 1 10101 10100 1101 10101 111010 101010 00101 1001110 01010 1011010 110100 0111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 13

Anaphora

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