I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died; Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HDID JKIK| I heard a fly buzz when I died | A |
| The stillness round my form | B |
| Was like the stillness in the air | C |
| Between the heaves of storm | B |
| - | |
| The eyes beside had wrung them dry | D |
| And breaths were gathering sure | E |
| For that last onset when the king | F |
| Be witnessed in his power | G |
| - | |
| I willed my keepsakes signed away | H |
| What portion of me I | D |
| Could make assignable and then | I |
| There interposed a fly | D |
| - | |
| With blue uncertain stumbling buzz | J |
| Between the light and me | K |
| And then the windows failed and then | I |
| I could not see to see | K |
Emily Dickinson
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