Poem Analysis of I Think To Live—may Be A Bliss by Emily Dickinson for close reading

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Rhyme scheme: X XaXX baca deXe ffbf dege XhghXfaca
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 11011001 011101 01110001 110101 11011101 110101 01010101 011001 110111001 010101 11000100 1101001 110111001 110101 11010001 110011 110001 110001 01110101 010101 010101 110001 11010101 010101 110001 110010 11111001 110101
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 29
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; to, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no 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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