Analysis of Innocence of Mockingbirds



Mockingbird, mockingbird sitting in a tree
I look up at you; you look down at me
I whistle a tune; you sing it back
Then change it yourself into a mockingbird's tune
A tune filled with sorrow and happiness
Only an innocent mockingbird
Mockingbird's tune could do that.

Mockingbird, mockingbird now I understand
You sing for us humans and are our angels
To guide us in life
Or help us along
Lifting our spirits
With a sweet little song
So innocent you are
You and all the other mockingbirds
It should be a crime to kill such innocence
What an angel, whatever we ask
You do without anything in return
Everyone should have a mockingbird role-model
For it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.


Scheme AAXXBCX XXXDXDXBXXXXC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 101010001 1111111111 110011111 1110101011 0111100100 10110010 11111 10101101 111110011010 11101 11101 101010 101101 110011 1010101 11101111100 11101011 110110001 1011010110 1110111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 664
Words 125
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 13
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 275
Words per stanza (avg) 63
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Submitted on August 26, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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