This is an analysis of A Dying Tiger&Mdash;Moaned For Drink by Emily Dickinson.

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A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 01010000110 1101010 11010001 1100110 0101001010 1100011 01010100 01000010 11110001110 11010001 1111010 110111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 13

Anaphora

i, 'twas