Analysis of From Cocoon forth a Butterfly

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



From Cocoon forth a Butterfly
As Lady from her Door
Emerged—a Summer Afternoon—
Repairing Everywhere—

Without Design—that I could trace
Except to stray abroad
On Miscellaneous Enterprise
The Clovers—understood—

Her pretty Parasol be seen
Contracting in a Field
Where Men made Hay—
Then struggling hard
With an opposing Cloud—

Where Parties—Phantom as Herself—
To Nowhere—seemed to go
In purposeless Circumference—
As 'twere a Tropic Show—

And notwithstanding Bee—that worked—
And Flower—that zealous blew—
This Audience of Idleness
Disdained them, from the Sky—

Till Sundown crept—a steady Tide—
And Men that made the Hay—
And Afternoon—and Butterfly—
Extinguished—in the Sea—


Scheme AXXX XXXX XXBXX XCXC XXXA XBAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011010 110101 0101001 01010 01011111 011101 1010010 0101 010111 100001 1111 11001 110101 11010101 11111 0100010 110101 0010111 0101101 11001100 011101 1110101 011101 001010 010001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 710
Words 101
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 21, 2023

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