Poetic Elements Analysis Outline

PEAO

Title: A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

It is about a snake going through the grass

Author: Emily Dickinson

Tone: scary

Mood/Atmosphere: frightening

Speaker: The Author as a male character

Audience: General

Subject or Topic: Evil

Type of Poem: (name formal poem style): lyrical ballad

Rhyme Scheme: A, B, C, B

Rhythm: Iambic

Meter: alternating line of tetrameter and trimeter

Structure: ballad quatrains

Enjambment or end stops: enjambment poem

Diction and syntax: the capitalized words symbolize something as a

Arrangement of verse and stanza

Paraphrase:
There is a snake going through the grass who sometimes comes around, and
if you have met him or not. The grass opens up as he travels forward and
closes back behind him, and once he is at your feet, you only see him for a
second before he goes back in the grass.
Analysis:
it symbolizes satan as the snake and sins that happen because of this

Sound Devices:
(Internal rhyme, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia, alliteration)

Similes, Metaphors, Allusions & Symbols: (quote or paraphrase and explain)

Imagery: Theme: Be aware of your surroundings and prepare for the worst