Analysis of "Is 3 crows an attempted murder?"



In a grey world full of street pigeons with
Swarming seagulls, like locusts, here squawking
Over nothing, fight each other for scraps
I have lived a thousand times the crow king

Watch the others, known as foolish yet quick
Cunning vs my superior intellect
Seeing the old distraction in fighting
To swoop right in, and steal your prize perfect

Feeding youngsters staring into night sky
Pondering do other birds understand
Problem with no way to communicate
Questioning creation, what it has planned

Leaving out your scraps, old man I feel you
Looks dead in my eyes, says “I know you do”


Scheme XAXA XBAB XCXC DD
Poetic Form
Metre 0011111101 101110110 1010111011 1110101011 1010111011 10101010010 1001010010 1110011101 1010100111 100110101 101111010 1000101111 1011111111 1101111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 593
Words 104
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

the local crows I try to feel daily inspired this they are intelligent and friendly what do they know I wonder

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Written on December 14, 2023

Submitted by jackg.26131 on December 14, 2023

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Jack Graham

I am 48 I'm Irish I have a Ba Hons in philosophy and psychology I write a lot of poetry Occasional short stories. more…

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