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
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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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was a British novelist and poet who also wrote essays and reviews. more…

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