Analysis of I'll send the feather from my Hat!

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



I'll send the feather from my Hat!
Who knows—but at the sight of that
My Sovereign will relent?
As trinket—worn by faded Child—
Confronting eyes long—comforted—
Blisters the Adamant!


Scheme AABCDE
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 11110111 110101 11011101 01011100 100100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 195
Words 31
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 145
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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