This is an analysis of There Is An Arid Pleasure by Emily Dickinson.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 101101000 1100010 110100010 11000010 1100000100 110010100 010100000 01000010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

Anaphora

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