A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree Analysis

Poets use many different literary devices in their poems and it takes a truly good poet to be able to use the many types of literary devices like Emily Dickinson does. In all her poems they're all very thought through, expresses deep meaning, and has to do a lot about nature. 

In Emily Dickinson’s poem “A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree” she has a rhyme in three of her stanzas but in the fourth one she doesn’t have any. The first sentence, in stanza one, the last word, “tree” rhymes with the third sentence’s last word “eaves”. In the second stanza, the second sentence, last word, “sea” rhymes with the fourth sentence's last word “be”. Same thing with stanza three the second sentence rhymes with the fourth sentence so people expect the last stanza to have a rhyme but it doesn’t. It makes the last sentence really interesting because why didn’t she rhyme in the last stanza? Anyways we aren’t her so we probably never will know why she did it but we can always guess. 

In the poem “A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree” it has quite a few personifications in it; in the first stanza second line “a half a dozen kissed the eaves” of course rain can’t kiss anything but it just means that it hit the roof of a house. “And made the gables laugh” is in the fourth sentence which is another personification. The third stanza, line three “the sunshine threw his hat away” also shows the use of personification. 

Emily Dickinson’s poem doesn’t tell exactly what she is talking about, but it is clear that she is talking about the rain. She wrote it very well without completely and straight away telling it was rain.