Analysis of The Stable
High under the rafters of this stable
a long-abandoned nest now occupied,
one bright blue egg appeared as spring rain fell.
Need and a certain pushiness on view
here, robins asserting their squatters’ rights.
Who dare displace them? In this transom-beamed
and musty-smelling manger they will thrive,
feeding routines followed, bird business done.
There is something apt in this new-within-
old: high and low, beaks gaping for the fly
amid dung, straw and sweat-steaming haunches.
These brief intruders will as nature prompts
soon decamp their borrowed home. In due time
curious eyes will wonder, ladders lean,
fingers pluck the relic of an empty shell.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJEKLMC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1100101110 010101110 1111011111 10010111 1100101101 1101101101 0101010111 1001101101 1110101101 1101110101 011101101 1101011101 101111011 1001110101 10101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 526 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
About this poem
One of Nature’s small miracles that through poetic association may suggest another level of significance.
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