Analysis of A Winter’s Sparrow
Advaith Menon 2012 (Kerala)
Waking up to a winter’s gale
colder than a night’s tale,
A sparrow as small as a bead
walks up to some brown reeds,
Snuggling up tightly to a stem so bent
that it cannot even stand up on its end,
Basking upon a twig, in the rays
of a lantern as big as a shrimp
Flies out into the unknown
| Scheme | AA XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110101 101011 01011101 111111 111010111 11101011111 100101001 101011101 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 295 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Written on January 11, 2022
Submitted by nisha.madhusekhar on January 11, 2022
Modified by nisha.madhusekhar on January 11, 2022
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