Analysis of Under A Big Gallows Tree
Under a Magnolia Tree
sits a Titmouse Chickadee
warbling tunes of victory
with a novel liberty
revealing she's always free.
Under a Banana Tree
sits a daft Cuckoo Birdie
howling tunes of sanity
yet batty in the belfry
revealing he's reason free.
Under a Coconut Tree
sits a New Zealand Kiwi
chirping tunes of booboisie
as a flightless mystery
revealing how to walk free.
Under an Umbrella Tree
sits an elderly Banshee
wailing tunes of prophecy
in an old cemetery
revealing whom next to free.
Under a big Gallows Tree
sits a Jailbird arrestee
crooning tunes of misery
to the inmate coterie
revealing he can't go free.
| Scheme | ABAAA AAAAA AAXAA AAAAA ABAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1000101 1011 10011100 1010100 010111 1000101 101110 1011100 1100010 0101101 100101 1011010 10111 1010100 0101111 1010101 1110001 1011100 011100 0101111 1001101 1011 1011100 101100 0101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 592 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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