This is an analysis of Promise This—when You Be Dying by Emily Dickinson.
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Promise This—When You be Dying—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abab ccXc cdcd XbXX Xefe fgfg XbfbXfceec
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Metre: 1 10011010 11101 10111010 10111 10111010 011001 01101010 11101 10111110 00111 00101010 10101 11011100 11111 10111011 10101 10111011 00101 10111010 10101 00101110 10101 10111010 11101 10100010 00100 10111010 10101 10101110 11101 1110 1110 10101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
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