Analysis of Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
He would declare and could himself believe
That the birds there in all the garden round
From having heard the daylong voice of Eve
Had added to their own an oversound,
Her tone of meaning but without the words.
Admittedly an eloquence so soft
Could only have had an influence on birds
When call or laughter carried it aloft.
Be that as may be, she was in their song.
Moreover her voice upon their voices crossed
Had now persisted in the woods so long
That probably it never would be lost.
Never again would birds' song be the same.
And to do that to birds was why she came.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean Sonnet |
Metre | 1101010101 1011010101 110101111 11011111 0111010101 0100110011 11011110011 1111010101 1111111011 01001011101 1101000111 1100110111 1001111101 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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