Emily Dickinson is well known for a plethora of poems. One poem in particular is I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-. This poem is also known as poem 591. It is 4 stanzas long, with four lines in each stanza; the 2nd and 4th lines in each stanza end in a slant rhyme. Emily Dickinson wrote this poem about death; a similar topic that is in many of her other poems. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died- by Emily Dickinson is a poem that utilizes rhyme and meter as well as the theme of death; Emily Dickinson portrays death as a nightmare in this poem. One of the most obvious aspects of I heard a Fly buzz—when I died is the meter that is used throughout. All four stanzas share the same pattern; this pattern is iambic tetrameter for the 1st and 3rd lines,
