Analysis of Mama never forgets her birds
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
Mama never forgets her birds,
Though in another tree—
She looks down just as often
And just as tenderly
As when her little mortal nest
With cunning care she wove—
If either of her "sparrows fall,"
She "notices," above.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10100101 100101 1111110 011100 11010101 110111 11010101 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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