Analysis of Valentine's Day
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
Oh! I wish I were a tiny browny bird from out the south,
Settled among the alder-holts, and twittering by the stream;
I would put my tiny tail down, and put up my tiny mouth,
And sing my tiny life away in one melodious dream.
I would sing about the blossoms, and the sunshine and the sky,
And the tiny wife I mean to have in such a cosy nest;
And if some one came and shot me dead, why then I could but die,
With my tiny life and tiny song just ended at their best.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 11110010111101 1001010101101 111110110111101 011101010101001 11101010001001 001011111010101 011110111111111 111010101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 466 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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