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 |
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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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