Analysis of Be Like A Hummingbird



BE LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD

Be like a hummingbird
Go about humming throughout the day
Be like a hummingbird
Have a happy humming of a day


Scheme A AbAb
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 11010 11010 101100101 11010 101010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 127
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 4
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

This poem is about those beautiful little hummingbirds.

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Submitted by StephenPollard on June 02, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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