Analysis of Watching Birds
Never took time
To watch birds building nests
Too busy – school, work
One Spring I did
I left one world behind
Patiently – curiously
Each day into the woods
Watched as twigs, branches, added
To the nest by instinct and great labor
The female finally laid her eggs
I know the young ones hatched
Now I see birds everywhere
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 111101 11011 1111 111101 1001000 110101 1111010 1011100110 01100101 110111 111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 313 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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