Analysis of Her breast is fit for pearls
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Her breast is fit for pearls,
But I was not a "Diver"—
Her brow is fit for thrones
But I have not a crest.
Her heart is fit for home—
I—a Sparrow—build there
Sweet of twigs and twine
My perennial nest.
| Scheme | ABACDEFC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011111 1111010 011111 111101 011111 101011 11101 101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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