Analysis of Lonely shepherd



The lonely shepherd, sitting on the mountain top, plays his flute
He sees around the meadows, across the hills, and remains glut.

Nobody understands, what is the meaning of his melancholic song
Nobody realizes, in his tiny life, what went wrong.

When he looks through the blue sky, he bestows his life
Everything passes in a whisper, like a rife.

With nimble sadness and sigh, he looks around
There is no sign of life nearby, only silences surround.


Scheme XX AA BB CC
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 010101010101111 11010101010011 10111010110101 110001101111 111101110111 10100010101 11010011101 111111111010001
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 442
Words 78
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by hakikur on September 26, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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