This is an analysis of This That Would Greet&Mdash;An Hour Ago by Emily Dickinson.

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This that would greet—an hour ago—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 01110010100 010100000 1001010000 1110110 10010001 1110110 1101010000 1101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

nor, it

Anaphora

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