Analysis of A Bird in the Library



A Bird in the Library

When I enter the library
And stand near the cupboard
Full of books,
I feel me like a bird
Thirsty for a word,
Through flutter, a word I utter;
In every book
I feel a brook of knowledge,
Flowing calm and quietly
In the clime of wisdom,
Drinking its water to the fullest
I enjoy my freedom,
Some golden page
For me a wishful golden cage,
Entering it I tweet
Essence of life sweet,
Going through paragraph
I revise my flight’s graph,
Some meaningful sentence ending with why
Opens new vistas in the sky,
Me voracious bird, digest each word
With new vision I see the world,
At comma, semi colon I pause
And think over my noble cause,
Sumptuous intellectual feed
Modifies my beak,
With my revised edition
I attain new peak,
My new version
Gives me new vision,
Me bird in the library
Wish it could be an aviary,
Like me, other birds
Would fly in the world of words.


Scheme A ABXBBXXXACXCDDEEFFGGBXXXXHIHIIAAJJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (26%)
Metre 010010 1110010 011010 111 111101 10101 11001110 01001 1101110 1010100 001110 101101010 101110 1101 11010101 100111 10111 10110 101111 1100101011 10110001 101010111 11101101 110101011 01101101 1001001 1011 1101010 10111 1110 11110 110010 11111100 11101 1100111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 849
Words 167
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 34
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 347
Words per stanza (avg) 84
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Submitted on March 03, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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