Analysis of The owl.
I saw the nocturnal bird,
sitting in a cote of a tree.
The bird was hooting
as if it wanted to be free.
The bird was the messenger
of the dark night.
who knew only the dark side,
not the bright light.
Its eyes bore only the lights
of stars and moon.
But they were devoid of
rising of the sun at noon.
It knew the obscurity of the night
as it found the night eerie.
It couldn't get the fathom of its depth
So it wanted to be free.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC BAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1100101 10001101 0111 11110111 0110100 1011 1110011 1011 1111001 1101 110011 1010111 1100100101 1110110 1101010111 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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