Poem Analysis of I Could Not Prove The Years Had Feet by Emily Dickinson for close reading

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I could not prove the Years had feet—... full text

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Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XaXX aXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 111100110 110011 11010111 11011100 111111010 110101 1111000000 10001010 11110111 1100010 110100010 110000010
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 13
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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I Could Not Prove The Years Had Feet by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

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