3 poems in class

Rotaion 3 poem 1 Wild Nights – Wild Nights! By Emily Dickinson

Rhyme scheme

• · Last word of the Second and fourth line rhyme
• · 1^st stanza abbb
• · 2^nd stanza cdec
• · 3^rd stanza fghg
• Style tone
• · very short lines
• · choppy sentences
• · uses dashes to emphasize pauses
• · uses exclamation points to emphasize words such as “Nights!…Chart!… Sea!...Thee!”

Rotation 3 poem 2 I felt a Funeral, in m Brain By Emily Dickinson

Alliteration

· “a service like a drum” metaphor

· “creek across my soul”

Rhyme scheme

· 1^st stanza abcd

· 2^nd stanza efgf

· 3^rd stanza hiji

· 4^th stanza klml

· 5^th stanza nopq

Figurative language

· boots of lead

· plank in reason

· creak across my soul

· mind was going numb

· as all the heavens were a bell

· hit a world at every plunge

Style

• · no sentence punctuation
• · the stanza breaks are at strange points with dashes at the end of most of them
• · the last stanza it just randomly ends

Rotation 3 poem 3 I’m Nobody! Who are you? By Emily Dickinson

Rhyme scheme

• · 1^st stanza abcb
• · 2^nd stanza defe

Style

• · uses dashes to lengthen the pauses when used