Analysis of Birdseye
watched you walk
down cracked pavement
bird’s eye view
past yellow taxis
blue postal boxes
and red phone booths
details I could see from here
though none caught my
eye quite like you
| Scheme | XXA XXX XXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1110 111 11010 11010 0111 0111111 1111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Written on 2020
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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