This is an analysis of The Sun And Moon Must Make Their Haste by Emily Dickinson.

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The Sun and Moon must make their haste—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaX XbaX XbXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 1 0111111100 010101 10010101 01010100 010001110 011111 11010100 1111100 11110 1101 1101010 01010101 0100110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

the, oh