Her Sweet Turn To Leave The Homestead by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Her Sweet Turn To Leave The Homestead that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX abaX XXXX XcXc XbXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01101011 101010 100010001000 11101 11100010 10101 100101010 011100 101111000 101010 0011101000 100100 1010000110 11101 101001010 10001 0010000110 11111 1010010100 001010 1000010100 0110010 1000001000 101010 100101010 1010100 100101010 1010000
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word never is repeated.

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