Analysis of THE CAT & THE BIRD (Poem #268)



A cat jumped over the fence,
And to the bird it seemed immense.
“What shall I do?”
The bird chirped, and he flew
Up high in a tree that was dense.

© copyright 8/1/1999 by Jean E. Gorney


Scheme AABBA X
Poetic Form
Metre 0111001 01011101 1111 011011 11001111 1011110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 185
Words 39
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 1
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Jean Gorney

I wrote a poem for my daughter and new son-in-law and read it at their wedding reception in 1997. People have been encouraging me ever since. I try to write up-beat and happy poetry. My poetry has been in many anthologies, newspapers, church bulletins,etc. I won a small contest once. I self-published some small(4x5)books with about 16 poems in each that can be used as greeting cards. I include an envelope for mailing. Check them out on my FB page under Jean Magill Gorney. more…

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