Analysis of The Dusky Wood-Swallow
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
Surely must you know me,
Friendly and content;
All my actions show me
Freely confident;
With my band of toilers,
When the blue days smile:
Little Jacky Martin
Come to stay a while.
Every town and village
Knows me, every farm.
Mine no wish to pillage,
Mine no will to harm;
Busy in the orchard,
My pest-destroying band:
Little Jacky Martin
Come to lend a hand.
Suddenly appearing
In far forest land
When you've cut a clearing,
Lo, I am at hand,
Wheeling, soaring floating
Where the new fields bask;
Little Jacky Martin
Come to aid the task.
In the chilly weather
See us in the trees,
Huddled up together
Like the swarming bees.
Awing again and toiling
When the chill days end;
Little Jacky Martin
Everybody's friend.
Scheme | axaxbcDc xexexfDf gfgfghDh ibibgjDj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 10010 111011 10100 11111 10111 101010 11101 1001010 111001 111110 11111 100010 110101 101010 11101 100010 01101 111010 11111 101010 10111 101010 11101 001010 11001 101010 10101 101010 10111 101010 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 723 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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