Analysis of You and I

Kiana Dobre 2010 (Washington)



Nature’s bright in all its beauty,
With its feathers and its gills,
From a cricket’s happy chirping,
To a pork’s rough quills.

From a neatly woven nest,
To the blinking of an eye,
Without nature we wouldn’t be here, You and I.

Nature’s bright in all its beauty,
With its paws and all its skills,
From the gentle stream’s lip-lapping duty,
To the slow blink-blinking of stars on distant hills.

From a fish’s glitter gills,
To the slowly darkening sky,
Without nature we wouldn’t be here sleeping, You and I.


Scheme Abxb xcc Abab bcc
Poetic Form
Metre 10101110 1110011 10101010 10111 1010101 1010111 01101111101 10101110 1110111 1010111010 101110111101 101101 10101001 0110111110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 526
Words 106
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

In this poem, I tried to capture both the beauty of nature, and the fact that we wouldn’t be here without it. We should all be trying to protect and preserve nature, wherever we are in the world, however we can.

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Kiana Dobre

I am currently twelve years old and love cats, reading, writing, nature, and video games. I also feel strongly about fairness towards plants. more…

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