Recite, to yourself, the following poem by Emily Dickinson. Then, make a phonetic transcription of the poem as you naturally speak it, following the system of transcription given in Barber, p. 11.
Delight is as the Flight --
Or in the Ratio of it,
As the Schools would say --
The Rainbowâs way --
A Skein
Flung colored, after Rain,
Would suit as bright,
Except that Flight
Were Aliment --
"If it would last"
I asked the East,
When that Bent Stripe
Struck up my childish
Firmament --
And I, for glee,
Took Rainbows, as the common way,
And empty skies
The Eccentricity --
And so with Lives --
And so with Butterflies --
Seen magic --through the fright
That they will cheat the sight --
And Dower latitudes far on --
Some sudden morn --
Our portion -- in the fashion --
Done --
(Poem #257, c1861; from Thomas H. Johnson, ed., The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1960)