Poem Analysis of I Had No Cause To Be Awake by Emily Dickinson for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem I Had No Cause To Be Awake that begins with:

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I had no Cause to be awake—... full text

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Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 1111001000 11001010 110101010 1101010 11010000 1111010 1100011000 100000010 1111000000 1111110 1100011000 11010100 11110100 0111010 11000011000 11000010 1101010 11010100 010101110 110001100
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
Average number of words per stanza: 18
Amount of lines: 21
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 Had No Cause To Be Awake by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

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