i heard a fly buzz when i died by emily dickinson?

Question

is there any rhyme, assonance, consonance or alliteration in this poem?


I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,-and then
There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.

and what's the theme of the poem?

Answer 1

The theme of the poem is what's going on around her as she's dying.

Answer 2

it fairly is a cynical actuality that opposes her expectation of dying. As she's death, "the King" is to not "Be witnessed -- interior the Room." there is purely an hassle-free fly that 'ushers' her away. and of direction, flies are symbolic of dying and rot.