To find a quotation you would use Bartlett's corpus of quotations including over 1100 quotations. Webster is a dictionary maker while Roget made thesauruses.
Active? because she regularly does it
Well, since you didn't include the excerpts, I cannot possibly know which ones you are referring to, but overall, Dickinson used iambic tetrameters and iambic trimeters in this poem.
Answer: The bird symbolizes loneliness, which Mrs. Wright endured throughout her marriage to Mr. Wright
Reading the entire poem aloud is the first step you should take once you have chosen a poem to memorize.
Memorizing one part at a time is a good memorizing strategy to use for this poem.