This is an analysis of Fame Is A Fickle Food (1659) by Emily Dickinson.
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaa aXXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,
- Metre: 100101 010101 11010 111 010101 110101 100101 11000101 110011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 9
