Analysis of Tragic feather
Tragic feather
No longer gay or loft
How is it...
That you have lost your wing
Were you cast out
Or could it be thus, cut off
From an angel
Or of a hawkish breed
Fallen feather
Lying amid the lonesome soft
Your tuft ne’er to ever
Touch again, the summer breeze
Underneath the shades
Of Weeping Willows drops
Adrift...
Within a sea, of decaying leaves
Covered white
You are soon to be
And, now forever lost
Beneath, the grove of empty trees
Scheme | AXXX XXXX AXAB XXXX XXXB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (45%) |
Metre | 1010 110111 111 111111 0111 1111111 1110 110101 1010 10010101 111110 1010101 0101 11011 01 010110101 101 11111 010101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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