Analysis of Ornithology For Beginners
Dorothy Parker 1893 (Long Branch) – 1967 (New York City)
The bird that feeds from off my palm
Is sleek, affectionate, and calm,
But double, to me, is worth the thrush
A-flickering in the elder-bush.
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111111 11010001 110111101 010000101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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