This is an analysis of the poem Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes that begins with:
First, her tippet made of tulle,
easily lifted off her shoulders and laid...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cd bdefefa ghXagcb iXXfjjX echajje jckik dXc XjjekX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,7,7,7,7,5,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101 10010101011 10100101 1010 0101001101 1011101 10101001001 10101 1101100101010 011111010 101001010 1101 10101 11110 111010010111 10001011 101101001 01110101 1011111 001000101010 0111000100 010011 110101010010 111110 10111001 100101000100 10110011 01110010001 10111011101 0111010010 101101001 1101010 01011 111110 0110010010 110101 1010101001 011000101 111101001 11010101 1111000010 111101110001100 01110111101 11110 110001 1100101 1111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, that are repeated.
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- summary of Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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