Analysis of The Tui
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
Alchemist of melody,
dropp by dropp distilling!
Hidden high on some tall tree,
Alchemist of melody;
With your liquid minstrelsy
All the forest filling:
Alchemist of melody,
dropp by dropp distilling!
| Scheme | ABaAcbAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001100 111010 1011111 1001100 11101 101010 1001100 111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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