Analysis of Gibberish
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861 (London) – 1907
Many a flower have I seen blossom,
Many a bird for me will sing.
Never heard I so sweet a singer,
Never saw I so fair a thing.
She is a bird, a bird that blossoms,
She is a flower, a flower that sings;
And I a flower when I behold her,
And when I hear her, I have wings.
Scheme | XABA XCBC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1001011110 10011111 101111010 10111101 110101110 1101001011 0101011010 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 271 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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