Analysis of I heard a bird at dawn
James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950
I heard a bird at dawn
Singing sweetly on a tree,
That the dew was on the lawn,
And the wind was on the lea;
But I didn't listen to him,
For he didn't sing to me.
I didn't listen to him,
For he didn't sing to me
That the dew was on the lawn
And the wind was on the lea;
I was singing at the time
Just as prettily as he.
I was singing all the time,
Just a prettily as he,
About the dew upon the lawn
And the wind upon the lea;
So I didn't listen to him
As he sang upon a tree.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 1010101 1011101 0011101 11101011 1110111 1101011 1110111 1011101 0011101 1110101 11111 1110101 10111 01010101 0010101 11101011 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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