Analysis of Two Old Crows
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Two old crows sat on a fence rail.
Two old crows sat on a fence rail,
Thinking of effect and cause,
Of weeds and flowers,
And nature's laws.
One of them muttered, one of them stuttered,
One of them stuttered, one of them muttered.
Each of them thought far more than he uttered.
One crow asked the other crow a riddle.
One crow asked the other crow a riddle:
The muttering crow
Asked the stuttering crow,
"Why does a bee have a sword to his fiddle?
Why does a bee have a sword to his fiddle?"
"Bee-cause," said the other crow,
"Bee-cause,
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B-cause."
Just then a bee flew close to their rail: --
"Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ZZZZZZZZ."
And those two black crows
Turned pale,
And away those crows did sail.
Why?
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B-cause.
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B-cause.
"Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ZZZZZZZZ."
Scheme | AAbxxcccDDeeDDebb aBxaaxBBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011 11111011 1010101 11010 0101 111101111 111111110 1111111110 1110101010 1110101010 01001 101001 11011011110 11011011110 1110101 11 11111111111111111 110111111 1111 01111 11 0011111 1 1111111111111111 1111111111111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 873 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 9 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 333 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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