I Often Passed The Village by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem I Often Passed The Village that begins with:

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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXa aXXX XXXbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101010 1101010 110110100 1101110 10110110 01111100 1001010 10111 0101011 0101010 010101100 1111010 1111100 11000010 101010 10101 1101010100 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • 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; than is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, it's 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 Often Passed The Village;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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