Analysis of The Birds reported from the South

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



The Birds reported from the South—
A News express to Me—
A spicy Charge, My little Posts—
But I am deaf—Today—

The Flowers—appealed—a timid Throng—
I reinforced the Door—
Go blossom for the Bees—I said—
And trouble Me—no More—

The Summer Grace, for Notice strove—
Remote—Her best Array—
The Heart—to stimulate the Eye
Refused too utterly—

At length, a Mourner, like Myself,
She drew away austere—
Her frosts to ponder—then it was
I recollected Her—

She suffered Me, for I had mourned—
I offered Her no word—
My Witness—was the Crape I bore—
Her—Witness—was Her Dead—

Thenceforward—We—t ogether dwelt—
I never questioned Her—
Our Contract
A Wiser Sympathy  


Scheme XAXB XCDC XBXA XXXE XXCD XEXA
Poetic Form
Metre 0110101 010111 01011101 111101 010010101 10101 11010111 010111 01011101 010101 0111001 011100 1101011 110101 01110111 10100 11011111 110011 11010111 010101 11111 110100 101 010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 704
Words 110
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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