Poem Analysis of Did You Ever Stand In A Cavern's Mouth by Emily Dickinson for close reading

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Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 01101001010 110010 11001011110 110001 0101110 1100110 11110101 110000010 011010010100 01110100 1101010000 010010100 10000011 1111010 0101010100 01010010
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 17
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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Did You Ever Stand In A Cavern's Mouth by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

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