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
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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