Analysis of Bird In Hand
Money for today
but not for tomorrow
Bees in the bonnet
cows in the barn
Poverty lessens
the weight of ambition
Our wishes and dreams
back burner to warm
Love for today
but not for tomorrow
Feelings with shelf lives
spoiled by date
The moment usurps
each hour an orphan
Whose bird in the hand
—neither early nor late
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
| Scheme | aBxx xcxx aBxd xcxd x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 11101 10010 1001 10010 011010 101001 11011 1101 11101 10111 111 0101 110110 11001 101011 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 348 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 14, 2022
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on June 14, 2022
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