Analysis of Early Birds



Early birds, we rise with the sun
When the mist is young, soft the air
we sing our song without fret or fear
We work our hardest and cherish our fun
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We sing in the trees and dance with the leaves
The wind is our fan, the sky our drum
The rising forest joins the hum
And all the roofs and their lowering eaves
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Our voices are tender, our feet secure
Our sides are packed with eager wings
Prepared for dives and sudden swings
At times when things are not so sure
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We rise with the sun, touched by the dew
In our diverse colours we please every view
We build our nests, low and high
We'll soar from earth to the waiting sky
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We are early birds, we like to sing
In the same wise way we like to think


Scheme ABCA DEED FGGF HHII JK
Poetic Form
Metre 10111101 10111101 1110101111 111010010101 1 1100101101 01110101101 01010101 0101011001 1 101011010101 101111101 01110101 11111111 1 111011101 010011111001 11101101 111110101 1 111011111 001111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 883
Words 145
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 544
Words per stanza (avg) 145
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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