Analysis of "The Songbird"
In a wood near my place is a thicket before a meadow,
In this coppice lives a bird that sings a new song, this song I carry with me throughout my day,
Most past this wood with the birds' song going unnoticed,
Even though I know his song I find myself returning again and again just to hear that hauntingly familiar tune,
One day I returned with my guitar to play an instrumental for this songbird,
I never played so well,
The songbird fell silent,
I figured that he must have left but as I finished my song he started singing again,
Was he listening to me?
Is that why he was hushed while I played?
I sat and listened to his blissful melody and pondered,
Once again the songbird fell silent,
I seized the opportunity to play yet another instrumental,
What happened next perplexed me,
The songbird started singing while I played,
But this time it was a different tune,
I swear He was singing along with my playing guitar,
It was an endearing melody that we performed together,
As we played the songbird hopped over close to me
Watching and singing,
What kind of bird was this I thought as we continued our opus,
This heavenly songbird whose melody was only matched by his beauty,
I returned the next spring, but he never,
His song lingers on in my heart...
By Karl (Word Virtuoso) Vopni
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00111110100101 0111011101111110110111 1111101110010 10111111110100100111111000101 111011101111010111 110111 01110 1101111111110111101001 1110011 111111111 110101110100010 10101110 1100100111010010 1101011 011010111 1111101001 11111001111001 1110101001101010 11101110111 10010 11111111110101010 11001110011011110 1010111110 11101011 11100101 10100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,327 |
Words | 267 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
About this poem
This particular poem I wrote after playing my acoustic guitar outside on my farm in Manitoba. Although there is a certain amount of embellishments this does reflect upon an actual event...
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Written on May 29, 1996
Submitted by WordVirtuoso on September 23, 2022
Modified on March 30, 2023
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