Analysis of The Linnet
Philip M. Raskin 1880 ( Shklov, Russia) – 1944 ( New York)
Have you heard the linnet trilling,
To discover did you try
What is hidden in her carol—
Does she sing or does she cry?
I am singing like the linnet,
When my heart does pine and long;
Love, and pain, and joy, and sorrow,
All are hidden in my song
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101010 1010111 11100010 1111111 11101010 1111101 10101010 1110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 261 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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