We Don'T Cry—tim And I by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem We Don'T Cry—tim And I that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aBcb XbaB abab Xaaa dada aaXaXcaba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111111 11111 111011 00101 111111 1011 101111 11111 101111 11101 111111 01001 11100 1111 111111 1111 110101 1111 11111 11101 111111 1011 11011 1101 111010 1111 11101001 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 75
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • 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; we, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.

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

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