Analysis of Up
Gregg Gorton 1953 (Syracuse, NY)
By dawn I am up
and onto the hill, birds
maybe chirping at me
as I always hope
they will. Two
Say's atop the house
are saying something
and a Kestrel is all
balled up atop
an oak, fully fluffed
against the cold
wind. I poke
in the soil after
artifacts, but find
I'm just exhilarated
to have made it up
and not to be, fearfully,
over the hill.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOAHP |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 010011 101011 1111 111 10101 11010 00111 1101 11101 0101 111 00110 1011 110100 11111 01111 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 264 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
About this poem
"Say's" refers to Say's Phoebes, a pair of which live in and around the front and back of our house in the high desert grassland where Tohono O'dham Indians have lived for centuries. The Kestrel is our smallest falcon, one of which winters on our land. Species names are capitalized, following tradition in birding writing. Some rhyming words--interior, slant and end--add some scaffolding.
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