I Felt My Life With Both My Hands by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem I Felt My Life With Both My Hands that begins with:

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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX aaXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11110111 01001100 11110001 0101000 11110111 1111001 01010100 111111010 111100000110 1111011100 0100010 0101010 1111101010 100010100 111101010 11111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • 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; my, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of I Felt My Life With Both My Hands;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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