Analysis of The Oven Bird
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
There is a singer eveyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past,
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.
Scheme | AABCBDCDEEFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 1011000111 1101011101 11111101110 1101111111 1101010111 11010111010 110101010 0111011101 110111101 0111011101 1111010111 0101110111 1111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 451 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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