Analysis of Sweet Lonely Bird

P.a.m 2000 (Delta)

Ode


Sweet lonely bird
Surviving earthquake and thunderstorm
How come you hang on, my friend,
When all the trees are gone.

Where did you hide your head?
When the rains were angry.
Where did you find your daily bread?
When the sun showed its fury.

Did your heart miss a beat?
Or you threw caution to the wind.
Did your soul feel the heat
Of rising stones, as they grind?

Sweet lonely Bird
Surviving earthquake and thunderstorm
Hang on my dear friend
Even when all the Trees are gone.


Scheme ABcd efef ghgh ABcd
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1101 0101010 1111111 110111 111111 101010 11111101 1011110 111101 11110101 111101 1101111 1101 0101010 11111 10110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 494
Words 106
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

Ode To A Surviving Bird. #Smile

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Written on June 10, 2000

Submitted by tutortracy0 on June 10, 2023

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