Analysis of Fame is a fickle food (1659)
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Farmer's Corn--
Men eat of it and die.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 010101 11010 111 010111 110101 010101 11110101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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