This is an analysis of This Is The Land The Sunset Washes, by Emily Dickinson.

This is the land the sunset washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX Xaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 000101110 110100101 101110010 11010100 110101010 10100101 100101010 11100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8