Analysis of The Crows Cry
Lifting from the scarecrow’s arms
The murder of crows flew
Over the summer rye
Noisily protesting in alarm.
Finally they balance
On the lopsided barn roof
Resembling tiny black stones.
In the early morning light
They watch and wait for him.
The farmer walks the rows
Cursing the cluster of crows
Their dark eyes follow him.
He pulls the scarecrow down
Crushing it into the ground.
The crows erupt in sudden flight,
Their cries slice the silence deep
There voices seem to thrill
We celebrate be caws, be caws
Now the scarecrow sleeps.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJJIKLHMNAO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011 010111 100101 100010001 100110 1011011 01001011 0010101 110111 010101 1001011 111101 110101 1010101 01010101 1110101 110111 1101111 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 432 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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