This is an analysis of Within My Garden, Rides A Bird by Emily Dickinson.

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Within my Garden, rides a Bird…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX aXXa XbXb XXcX cXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 01110101 0101010 11010101 11010010 1101110 01010100 10001100 110111 110010100 110101 1010010000 110111 1111011 0100110 11010001 010000 1101010 01110100 0110010 110001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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