Analysis of The wind trapped like a tired man,
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, 'Come in,'
I boldly answered; entered then
My residence within
A rapid, footless guest,
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as hand
A sofa to the air.
No bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of numerous humming-birds at once
From a superior bush.
His countenance a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown tremulous in glass.
He visited, still flitting;
Then, like a timid man,
Again he tapped--'t was flurriedly--
And I became alone.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDXD EFXF XAEX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 01110101 010110 11010101 110001 01011 110101 01010011 010101 1111111 111101 110010111 1001001 1100010 110111 11010111 110001 1100110 110101 0111111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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