Analysis of The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb
What merit have the Tune
No Breakfast if it guaranty
The Rose content may bloom
To gain renown of Lady's Drawer
But if the Lady come
But once a Century, the Rose
Superfluous become—
| Scheme | AXX XXAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111101 110101 1101101 011011 11011101 110101 11010001 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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