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Surgeons Must Be Very Careful by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

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This is an analysis of Surgeons Must Be Very Careful by Emily Dickinson.

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Surgeons must be very careful…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,
  • Metre: 1 10101010 11101 10111010 101000
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 5

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