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The Earth by Ralph Waldo Emerson: poem analysis

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This is an analysis of The Earth by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

OUR eyeless bark sails free,
Though with boom and spar…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 110111 10111 101110 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

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