Analysis of The Robin's In Song
Identity, born from strains of inheritance
Seeing only his back
The day's remained long
Promise and hope our failure reclaimed
With the fat lady mute,
—and the robin's in song
(Trystan Colin Behm & Kurt Philip Behm
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XXA XXA XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010011110100 101011 01011 1001101001 101101 001001 11011101 010100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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