Analysis of I short an Arrow
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight,
Could not follow it in it's flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak,
I found the arrow, still unbroken;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Scheme | aAbb aAcc xxdd |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111100101 11111111 11101101 11101011 11010101 11111111 11111101 111100111 11100011 110101010 001101011 1101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
Love, kindness and sympathy are devine virtues. The person to whom we show them, becomes our friend. In this poem the poet tells us that our love or a kind deed may come back to us in the form of a friend.
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Written on September 18, 2022
Submitted by mdahmadraza0786dbg on September 18, 2022
Modified on April 30, 2023
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