Analysis of No Wings on My Bird
Jeffrey Lynn Naylor 1954 (Orlando)
No wings on my bird
To fly high and far
Waiting to hear your word
My heart yearns to spar
So where is she today?
Afraid of my grief?
Seeking another way?
Her time with me so brief?
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111 11101 101111 11111 111101 01111 100101 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 173 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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