This is an analysis of What If I Say I Shall Not Wait! by Emily Dickinson.
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What if I say I shall not wait!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X XXX XXX aaX XXX
- Stanza lengths: 1,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 1 10111111 1011010100 11100001 1011010000 1101100100 110100 110110001 101100101 100000010 110000010100 11000010010 1110000
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
what, or
