Answer:
Stanzas: <em>5</em> Lines: <em>20 </em> (4 per stanza)
Explanation:
A Thunderstorm
By: Emily Dickinson
Stanza 1
(1)The wind begun to rock the grass
(2)With threatening tunes and low, -
(3)He flung a menace at the earth,
(4)A menace at the sky.
Stanza 2
(5)The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
(6)And started all abroad;
(7)The dust did scoop itself like hands
(8)And throw away the road.
Stanza 3
(9)The wagons quickened on the streets,
(10)The thunder hurried slow;
(11)The lightning showed a yellow beak,
(12)And then a livid claw.
Stanza 4
(13)The birds put up the bars to nests,
(14)The cattle fled to barns;
(15)There came one drop of giant rain,
(16)And then, as if the hands
Stanza 5
(17)That held the dams had parted hold,
(18)The waters wrecked the sky,
(19)But overlooked my father's house,
(20)Just quartering a tree.
