This is an analysis of Perhaps You'D Like To Buy A Flower by Emily Dickinson.

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Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XaXX Xa
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,2,
  • Metre: 1 011101010 1111010 0111011 010101 1001010 010101 01010101 111101 11010111 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 11