The Wind Tapped Like A Tired Man, Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLML NAKO| The wind tapped like a tired man | A |
| And like a host 'Come in ' | B |
| I boldly answered entered then | C |
| My residence within | D |
| - | |
| A rapid footless guest | E |
| To offer whom a chair | F |
| Were as impossible as hand | G |
| A sofa to the air | F |
| - | |
| No bone had he to bind him | H |
| His speech was like the push | I |
| Of numerous humming birds at once | J |
| From a superior bush | I |
| - | |
| His countenance a billow | K |
| His fingers if he pass | L |
| Let go a music as of tunes | M |
| Blown tremulous in glass | L |
| - | |
| He visited still flitting | N |
| Then like a timid man | A |
| Again he tapped 't was flurriedly | K |
| And I became alone | O |
Emily Dickinson
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