It's Thoughts—and Just One Heart by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem It's Thoughts—and Just One Heart that begins with:

It's thoughts—and just One Heart—
And Old Sunshine—about—... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXXa aXbbb cdXXb aXXXcdXaaaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111 111101 110110 11111100 010101 101100 11010 1010110 010001 01010011 1101 10010101010 101 010101 1101011110 011 011111 010101 0101 01011001 1101 111100 011111 11001 110101 111101 1101001011 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; and is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase perhaps connects the lines.

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