Analysis of The Sparrow
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
A LITTLE bird, with plumage brown,
Beside my window flutters down,
A moment chirps its little strain,
Then taps upon my window-pane,
And chirps again, and hops along,
To call my notice to its song;
But I work on, nor heed its lay,
Till, in neglect, it flies away.
So birds of peace and hope and love
Come fluttering earthward from above,
To settle on life's window-sills,
And ease our load of earthly ills;
But we, in traffic's rush and din
Too deep engaged to let them in,
With deadened heart and sense plod on,
Nor know our loss till they are gone.
Scheme | AABBCCDD EEFFGGXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 01110101 01011101 11011101 01010101 11110111 11111111 10011101 11110101 11001101 11011101 011011101 11010101 11011110 1110111 111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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