Analysis of Old Crow



Old crow
Tired and lazy' against the day
Dark skies
Lost in blacks and whites and grays
Howling north wind
Sure takes a man's fight away

Wastelands,
A dreamer's home on his best day
Hard rain
Drops the leaves and makes the colors fade
And talks cheap,
But for the words of time they'll ave the last say
Oh the words of time, they'll have the last say

And the harvest is in, it wasn't much
May I have enough to get by
The baskets were light, not a muscle ached
And somehow I feel I'm going to die
The winter is coming and the signs say hard
I've never seen such a haunting sky

For on the mountains, frost in the wind
And somehow I feel I'm going to die
Full moon
Lonely above the old oak tree line
Old crow
Hanging empty in the black sky
And a nighthawk
Circles her in silence as she flies
Old crow, all alone she flies


Scheme Abcxdb cbxxxbb xexExe dExxAexcc
Poetic Form
Metre 11 100100101 11 1010101 1011 1101101 1 0111111 11 101010101 011 11011111011 1011111011 0010101101 11101111 0100110101 011111011 01011000111 110110101 110101001 011111011 11 100101111 11 10100011 001 100010111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 799
Words 166
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 7, 6, 9
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 160
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted by hitalot on March 18, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mario William Vitale

Mario William Vitale is a twentieth century poet. He has developed a style of free verse. Has written over one thousand poems. more…

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