This is an analysis of This Chasm, Sweet, Upon My Life by Emily Dickinson.

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This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abcb deXe aXXd cXbX fXfX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 01010111 110001 11110101 011101 01010101 011101 01110101 010001 10110101 110001 111101001 110001 01010101 000101 11110101 0101010 11110101 110000 01110001 10111100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 21