Analysis of A Bird Now Gone
No bird remains to sing his song
so silence pounds the whole day long
in beat with memory of the day
I clapped to make him go away.
The fault, it clearly lies with me,
the bird was what the bird should be.
Now I live knowing I was wrong…
to want to silence any song.
| Scheme | AA BB CC AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 11011111 11010111 011100101 11111101 01110111 01110111 11110111 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
My follow up to Robert Frost's 'A Minor Bird'
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Written on April 12, 2014
Submitted by jeffbresee on August 02, 2021
Modified on April 21, 2023
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