Analysis of The Birds
Some mornings at first light
after the birds take flight from their nests
I listen.
I hear their songs of melancholy love
of sorrow and pain and,
I wonder.
What happened to the sky so blue
but, now a shade of grey.
What happened to the sun and rain,
because now
I see
only the anger of a destroyed world,
were war and blood run free,
freer than the wind used to blow.
I smell
only the ashes and smoke that fill the air
not the grasses and flowers that once covered the ground.
I know
the birds are all that are left of the world I once knew
but even now in their song I can feel them slowly losing their life and their soul
turning into the living dead that inhabit the world today
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 100111111 110 111111001 110010 110 11010111 110111 11010101 011 11 1001010011 010111 10101111 11 10010011101 1010010111001 11 0111111101111 11010111111101011011 1001010110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 536 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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