Analysis of A Bird Came Down
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,--
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, splashless, as they swim.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XXXX XXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 011101 111111 11110101 010101 011101 100101 0111101 110101 111101 110101 11110111 111101 1101010 110101 011110 011101 1101010 110101 1101111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 555 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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