This is an analysis of Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers, by Emily Dickinson.

Safe in their alabaster chambers,
Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbb bcac XdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 101101010 0111010111 10110001010 100101101 11010010011 100100101 10110100100 111000101 11000010010 111111001 101110010 101110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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