This is an analysis of The Whole Of It Came Not At Once by Emily Dickinson.

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The Whole of it came not at once—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 0100111100 1101100 01001110100 01010000 0110001 110001 1101110100 1100010 11100010 10000100 110100100 11001000
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 13

Anaphora

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