This is an analysis of The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 0101110 010101 010101100 1100010 100010100 0101100 1100101110 110100000 01010000 110001000 01110100000 110100000 111101000 1101100 1100010000 1111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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