Poem Analysis of It Feels A Shame To Be Alive by Emily Dickinson for close reading

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It feels a shame to be Alive—... full text

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Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa 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 0101001000 111100010 110001010 10000010 0100010101 010101 1100110000 0111000 01010000010 111000010 11000100001 011101 1111000010 110101 110000010010 0100001 01100010100 1101110 110000000 0110000
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
Average number of words per stanza: 17
Amount of lines: 21
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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It Feels A Shame To Be Alive by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

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