This is an analysis of The First Day That I Was A Life by Emily Dickinson.
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The first Day that I was a Life…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aXaX bXbX XXbX XXXX
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1 01111101 110110010 11111101 110110010 1100001 110 10100001 110 10011001000 11 11000100 0110 10110 1001010 10110 10100
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
that, i
