Analysis of Starling
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
The starling in the ivy now,
For to amuse his dear,
Mimics the dog, the cat, the cow,
Blackbird and Chanticleer.
The starling's an accomplished mime:
Between his love-making
He solaces her brooding-time
By many a madcap thing.
He is the saw, the spade, the scythe,
He rings the dinner bell;
Chuckles of laughter, small and blithe,
Of self-laudations tell.
Now by the battle-field he mocks
As though 'twere but a game,
Thunder with which the belfry rocks
And the great bursts of flame.
Till when the merriment will pall
He turns to love again,
Calling his love-sick gurgling call
Above the dying men.
Who knows what dream the starling weaves
Of boyhood, soft and clean?
A small room under golden eaves
To which the sun looks in.
The starling's talking in the thatch,
Bidding the boy arise;
And the door's opening on the latch
To show -- his mother's eyes.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE FGFG XHXH IXIX JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 01000101 110111 10010101 1001 0110101 011110 110101 110011 11010101 110101 10110101 1111 11010111 111101 10110101 001111 110111 111101 101111001 010101 11110101 11101 01110101 110110 0110001 100101 001100101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 835 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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