Analysis of hummingbird
(for Lisa Lenard-Cook)
she of the whirlwinds,
tiny thundercloud and falcon’s eye
rainbow from the painted hills
what songs you conjured forth
in the careful tending of a sea of hearts
voices breaking as they read
one tiny word after another
you darted sharply
careful catching, lest they fall, careful
tending of the timid, careful
charting of the heights and valleys
if one of them cried
you held the silence for the whole wide room
what will we do without the bright bohemian of you
the owl’s quiet cluck
a dorothy parker sigh, a shrug
and your silly jingle jangle down the halls
drinking in the room, and
smiles, serene, composed
bright desert bird bedecked
her tiny plumage penned
her sharpened courage
her pointed tongue, poised pen
little falcon of the hills
swoops now above the silent sage
whirlwind of the desert sands
Scheme | X A X A X A X X X B B A X X X X X A X X X X X X A X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 1101 1010101 110101 111101 00101010111 1010111 110110010 11010 101011110 10101010 10101010 11111 1101010111 11110101010011 01101 010010101 01101010101 100010 10101 110101 010101 01010 010111 1010101 11010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 974 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 27 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
About this poem
This poem was written as an elegy, for one of my writing teachers. Taken too soon, from the SB Writers Conference https://valentinebonnaire.com/2016/05/30/hummingbird-poem/ I wrote it in my old blog, as my nom de plume Valentine Bonnaire, but actually writ by me - Adrienne Wilson
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Written on May 30, 2016
Submitted by adriennedwilsonwriter on March 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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