Analysis of The Buck
The light is fading, no mistake
Between the oaken woods and lake.
It's time to finish with the row
And homeward bound, the trail to take.
With rake in hand I turn to go
To retrieve my pick axe and the hoe,
When from the trail there ran a buck
And right behind him came two doe.
At first I thought, Oh what luck!
I'm here, my rifle's in the truck,
And as he stopped to look my way
He gave his tail a flip and tuck.
Then he turned and bounced away
The doe behind him, sleek and grey.
Crashing through the brush and vine
Into the woods and welcomed shade.
He must have sported twenty tine!
I thought as Shadow starts to whine,
Asking, should he give him chase?
I pat his head in soft decline.
The sun is gone upon my face
To lose the buck is no disgrace,
Although today I've been undone
There'll be another time and place.
Today the buck has rightly won
The hunters gone, the season done.
Perhaps we'll meet again next year
Before the season's had it's run...
The buck was ancient, and I fear
He may not see another year,
But then, another year is seldom clear
For man, or dog, or antlered deer.
Tim I. Brumley
Scheme | AABA BBCB CCDC DDEX EEFE FFGF GGHG HHHH X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 0101101 11110101 01010111 11011111 101111001 11011101 01011111 1111111 1111001 01111111 11110101 1110101 01011101 1010101 01010101 11110101 1111111 1011111 11110101 01110111 11011101 1011101 101010101 01011101 01010101 01110111 01010111 01110011 11110101 1101011101 11111101 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,075 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on April 25, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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