Analysis of Winged Words
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The winged words, they pass
Still everywhere,
Seeds of the spirit-grass
The dream-winds bear
From that heart-field to this,
Where thought as feeling is;
There’s not a seed will miss
Life, once sown there.
They pass, the faery words,
In shade and shine,
As they were magic birds
This heart of mine
Gave shape and colour to,
As in the light and dew
The primal creatures grew
From germs divine.
Scheme | ABABCXCB DEDEFFFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 110 110101 0111 111111 111101 110111 1111 11011 0101 110101 1111 11011 100101 010101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 448 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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