This is an analysis of The First Day's Night Had Come by Emily Dickinson.

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The first Day's Night had come—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 01111100 110101 11000001000 1111010 1101010 01001010 110110011 0101010 1100111 110101 10001001100 01011100 11000010 11000010 1110100010 1111000 11010000 1101110 101000110100 1001000
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

her, to