Analysis of Valentine's Day



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
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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Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley was a priest of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. more…

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