Analysis of Of Birdsongs
There’s a great wisdom
in birdsongs ~
containing
a wine-sweetness
piercing
heart-depths
and delighting
attentive-ear ~
enlightening
inner-eye
with melody
of fair-light
resplendent
with innocent-joy
and virtue
clear and bright ~
| Scheme | ABCBCBCDCEFGHIJG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110 01 010 0110 10 11 0010 0101 0100 101 1100 111 010 11001 010 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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