Analysis of The Amber Hind



I aimed at a hind in the dingle,
Her eyes looking right back at me;
Her face set my sinews a-tingle,
Delight of the daybreak was she.

I pointed my gun at her torso
And cocked it with barely a sound;
But I watched her with awe, even more so,
When all of a haste she turned round.

She, peering head on with her ebony glare,
Loomed handsome as handsome can loom;
The sun on her back and the wind in her hair
She wondered at me; I presume.

Yet, still, she remained in the clearing
Not knowing I stalked her  ~  I think;
Boldly and brave, never fearing,
I'm certain she noticed me blink.

She winked back at me as she stood in the breeze
(I swear I partook of her smile)
That moment I knew, when the trigger I'd squeeze,
I would miss her by half of a mile.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 111010010 01101111 01111010 0110111 11011101 01111001 1110111011 11101111 11011101001 11011011 01101001001 11011101 111010010 11011011 10011010 11011011 11111111001 1111101 11011101011 111011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 731
Words 151
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

This is a countryside poem writ in 1988.

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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on July 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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