I Had A Guinea Golden by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem I Had A Guinea Golden that begins with:

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I had a guinea golden—... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXXa XabX XXXX XXXcXXXd XXdbXXXXcXdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,4,4,8,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11010100 1100010 1101110 1100010 1101010 10110100 11111110 111101 11010100 1111001 1101010 1101100 11110100 11000100 11110100 110101100 11010100 110010100 1111110 010001 11011100 11011000 11110110 110011 11010100 1101010 10001110 110001 1101010 0100010 1101010 01010100 1101010 1101010 1111010 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are 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 Had A Guinea Golden;
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  • history of its creation;
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