This is an analysis of 'Tis Good&Mdash;The Looking Back On Grief by Emily Dickinson.

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'Tis good—the looking back on Grief—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX aaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 110101110 0101010 110101000 010110 01011101 010001100 1101010000 111101 11011101 0100001 0101000010 11000000
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 13

Anaphora

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