Analysis of A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink—
I hunted all the Sand—
I caught the Dripping of a Rock
And bore it in my Hand—
His Mighty Balls—in death were thick—
But searching—I could see
A Vision on the Retina
Of Water—and of me—
'Twas not my blame—who sped too slow—
'Twas not his blame—who died
While I was reaching him—
But 'twas—the fact that He was dead—
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 01010111 110101 11010101 011011 11010101 110111 01010100 110011 11111111 111111 111101 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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