Analysis of Song of the Prettybird
I've lived 20 prettybird years
Of this great big prettybird life
And i think i pretty pretty pretty bird bird pretty much know what im talking about
People like to poke fun at my pretty bird pretty preening
At my pretty pretty bird pretty feathers
But look at my long clean coat
At my pretty pretty bird pretty pink legs
When pigeon men track me cross sky highway
tHey are happy to trace hungry orange eyes
between my pretty pretty bird bird feathers
To busy fantasizing pretty bird
Wet dreams swollen chest fluff fest
To pretty poke bird fun
To pretty poke fun bird
To pretty bird bird pretty bird bird pretty pretty pretty
Too busy fantasizing
to poke fun at permanently preening pretty bird
My vanity is insanity unless it helps get you off
What a treat hosting eyes between my thighs
They will spend equal time begging to share bed with me
Condemning mediocrity
How does one achieve complexity when all she was ever taught to be was basic
Pigeon man wants pretty bird to pretty bird
Until pretty bird fulfills ideas of prettiness
Then shes too pretty pretty bird bird paralyzing and preened
Look at my long clean coat
At my pretty pretty bid pretty pink legs
Track me cross sky highway
Take a picture I beg you
Take a picture pretty bird pretty bird
My left side is my best side
I have a best side
I have a better half
I am a half
Pretty cus they want a pretty bird bird
I grew up on a diet of bread crumbs catalog clippings and sidewalk cracks
How do you expect anything else
Pretty sure i know what im talking about
Pretty sure
pretty sure
Maybe not
Sorry sorry sorry sorry
Can i ask a question
Sorry sorrry
May i may i
Pretty bird used to sing
Baby bird used to sing
Baby bird was pretty bird before pretty bird learned to pretty
And baby bird could compose whole symphonies
Acute intricacies melodies capturing vacies poetry
But the reviews came in
and they prefered apology
So she shrank
learned to make herself small enough
to nearly fit back in her eggshell
to tip toe atop eggshells
expanded flight just long enough
for pigeon men to track her cross sky highway
but still she sang too loud
so they caged her up
for her pretty pretty bird bird long clean coat
for her pretty pretty bird pretty pink legs
and they said sing pretty lady sing
but I forgot how
so I said
pretty pretty bird bird look at my long clean coat
at my pretty pretty bird pretty pink legs
but they were bored of me
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Metre | 1111 111111 0111101010111011111001 101111111011010 11101011010 1111111 11101011011 110111111 11101110101 01110101110 110100101 1110111 110111 110111 110111011101010 110100 1111100010101 1100101000111111 1011010111 1111011011111 0100100 111010100111110111110 10111011101 011010101011 11110101110001 111111 11101011011 11111 1010111 1010101101 1111111 11011 110101 1101 1011101011 111101011110010011 11101101 10111111001 101 101 101 10101010 111010 101 1111 101111 101111 1011101011011110 01011011100 0110001001001100 100110 01010100 111 11101101 11011001 111011 01011101 1101110111 111111 11101 10101011111 10101011011 011110101 11011 111 101011111111 11101011011 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 2,468 |
Words | 522 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 25, 9, 4, 7, 11, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 68 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 278 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Written on May 10, 2016
Submitted on December 23, 2021
Modified on May 03, 2023
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