This is an analysis of Taking Up The Fair Ideal by Emily Dickinson.

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Taking up the fair Ideal,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,9,
  • Metre: 1 1010101 10101 1010001000 101010 10101000 1010010 10000001001100 10100 100001100 101010 101100000 10001010 10101000 110000100 100100 10000000 11000100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18