Analysis of The Lady feeds Her little Bird
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Lady feeds Her little Bird
At rarer intervals—
The little Bird would not dissent
But meekly recognize
The Gulf between the Hand and Her
And crumbless and afar
And fainting, on Her yellow Knee
Fall softly, and adore—
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 110100 01011101 11010 01010100 01001 01010101 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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