Analysis of Evening Song

Fred Laird 1972 (Buggleskelly)



The blackbird at dusk
Fills the evening silence
With gentle birdsong


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 01011 101010 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 70
Words 12
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 11

About this poem

A Haiku based on what i was hearing at the time.

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Written on December 16, 2023

Submitted by fred.laird on January 15, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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