Question

How many lines and stanzas are there in the poem of THE THUNDERSTORM?

Answer 1

Answer:

Stanzas: 5 Lines: 20 (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.