Analysis of Old Grey Dove



The old grey dove
Sits alone,
Quietly cooing to himself
As dawn
Begins to break.
Then,
As the early morning sun
Peeps
Over the old town,
He hovers slowly down
To find
What morsels the night has left behind.
Soon there are many,
Scavenging
For what they can find.
To frail to fight,
He's happy
With those few crumbs he's found,
Not so long ago
He would have fought savagely
To feed his broods.
But
He dances love no more,
Contently
Taking each day as it comes.
And
When the sun
Sets over the rooftops
He roosts again,
Thinking only
Of his moment in time.

TjHatton.        06/04/13.


Scheme XAXXXBCDEEFFGXFXGXXGDXXXXXCXBGX A
Poetic Form
Metre 0111 101 10010101 11 0111 1 1010101 1 10011 110101 11 110011101 11110 100 11111 1111 110 111111 11101 1111100 1111 1 110111 1 1011111 0 101 11001 1101 1010 111001 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 549
Words 107
Sentences 9
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 31, 1
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 224
Words per stanza (avg) 57
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Submitted on October 09, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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