Analysis of Stray Birds 41 - 50
THE trees,
like the longings of the earth,
stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven.
YOU smiled and talked to me of nothing
and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
THE fish in the water is silent,
the animal on the earth is noisy,
the bird in the air is singing,
But Man has in him
the silence of the sea,
the noise of the earth
and the music of the air.
THE world rushes on
over the strings of the lingering heart
making the music of sadness.
HE has made his weapons his gods.
When his weapons win he is defeated himself.
GOD finds himself by creating.
SHADOW,
with her veil drawn,
follows Light in secret meekness,
with her silent steps of
love.
are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
I THANK thee that I am none of the wheels of power
but I am one with the living creatures
that are crushed by it.
THE mind,
sharp but not broad,
sticks at every point
but does not move.
Scheme | ABX CX XDCXDBX XXX XX C XXAEE X XXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 1010101 101111010 110111110 011111111101 010010110 0100101110 01001110 11101 010101 01101 0010101 01101 1001101001 10010110 11111011 111011101001 11011010 1 1011 1010101 101011 1 1101101110 1111111101110 1111101010 11111 01 1111 111001 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 7, 3, 2, 1, 5, 1, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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