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—


Scheme XXXX XXXX
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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