This is an analysis of The Color Of The Grave Is Green by Emily Dickinson.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 010001010 010100010 111100010 01010100 010100110 110001 011101010 11010000 0100010100 010100010 111100010 01000010 11010100 1000101 01010101 11001010 010001100 010000010 1101110100 11010000 110100000 0101010 1111001000 01000010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

to, it

Anaphora

the, not