Analysis of Robin



With its brick red breast
The robin sits on his nest
On its unmarked pale blue eggs
Chicks with shaky, short legs
The fledglings need to be fed
From grasses is made their bed
Worms are in the robin's beak
For more it still has to seek
To feed the hungry brood
With insects, and other food
It searches day after day
There is no time to stay
At fall the youngsters can fly
Insects are going to die
On fruit the robin will now feed
Winter fat is what it need
To survive the coldest season
It doesn't know the reason
For all the snow and ice,
But sometimes winter can be nice


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 0101111 1101111 111011 011111 1101111 1100101 1111111 110101 110101 1101101 111111 1101011 111011 11010111 1011111 10101010 1101010 110101 10110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 552
Words 114
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 453
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heidrun Kordholste-Nikander

I was born in Germany in 1960. I lived in Germany, Finland, and California and have visited many European countries. I currently live in Germany, but I would like to return to the US. I started writing poems in California inspired by the beautiful nature. I have a master degree in forestry and North American Studies. I write scientific books about nature and environmental history, but also short stories and poems. more…

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