This is an analysis of High From The Earth I Heard A Bird by Emily Dickinson.

High from the earth I heard a bird;
He trod upon the trees…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbbXacaXXcXcaXaXdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 10011101 110101 1101010 111101 1101010 010101 1001010 101101 0101010 110001 1101010 110010 0101010 110101 1101010 000101 1000101 010011 01001100 110011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

he

Anaphora

and