Through Lane It Lay—through Bramble by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Through Lane It Lay—through Bramble that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X Xaba bXXX baba aXbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101110 110111 1001011 010101 01110100 011101 0101010 110001 0101110 010101 1001011 010101 0101010 010101000 1001 0101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; through is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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