Analysis of Short Poem: Empty Nests, Bluebirds, Beckonings & Callings
The bluebird
Perched
On a windowsill
Chirps happily until
A beckoning is heard, a call from the sky,
And then,
He spreads his wings ...
To fly.
©02-13-2009
Clara B. Ray
Written for my baby son Michael,in the United States Air Force. That first deployment was hard & so bitter-sweet with pride & the old empty nest feeling combined!
| Scheme | XXAAXXXA XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01 1 101 110001 01001101101 01 1111 11 1 1011 1011101100101111101011110111011011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 322 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on March 10, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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