This is an analysis of Why Make It Doubt—it Hurts It So by Emily Dickinson.

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Why make it doubt—it hurts it so—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aXabbccddeeeX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,13,
  • Metre: 1 11010101 1101 1101 11010101 01010111 10011111 111101001 10010101 11000111 01010101 11110101 11010111 11000100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

so, it

Anaphora

so

Anadiplosis

so