Analysis of A Minor Bird
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 111011101 01111111 111111101 1111111111 011101101 011111111 011111101 010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 311 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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