Analysis of As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies
As the Vulture teased
Forces the Broods in lonely Valleys
As the Tiger eased
By but a Crumb of Blood, fasts Scarlet
Till he meet a Man
Dainty adorned with Veins and Tissues
And partakes—his Tongue
Cooled by the Morsel for a moment
Grows a fiercer thing
Till he esteem his Dates and Cocoa
A Nutrition mean
I, of a finer Famine
Deem my Supper dry
For but a Berry of Domingo
And a Torrid Eye.
| Scheme | ABAB XXXX XXCX XDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 101101010 10101 100101010 10101 110111110 11101 10011101 0111 110101010 10101 110111010 00101 1101010 11101 110101010 00101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 425 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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