This is an analysis of There Came A Wind Like A Bugle by Emily Dickinson.

There cam a Wind like a Bugle -
It quivered through the Grass…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabacbdbcedeffXXf
  • Stanza lengths: 17,
  • Metre: 11011010 0100101 10110101 110001 11010101 1011001 01010100 010101 10110101 110101 11010101 111111 01010101 010101 1111 1111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 17

Anaphora

the, and