Analysis of Out along the silver-stream



Out along the silver-stream
of rippling current crystal gleam,
water-grasses stand and sway
dancing in the light of day
to notes of trickling music-fair
amid the shimmer-sparkled air ~
where trees splay their finger-leaves
shaking them over shady-eaves ~
robins swell red-flush breasts
with task at hand to weave their nests
poised among the branches-high
waving between earth and sky ~
somewhere creatures of fur and pelt,
dressed in their coats of finest-felt
as befits every noble forest-beast,
with bright-eyes search for goodly-feast ~


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 110010101 1010101 1000111 11110101 01010101 1111101 10110101 101111 11111111 1010101 1001101 1101101 10111101 10110010101 11111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 525
Words 84
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 438
Words per stanza (avg) 84
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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mtoddm

Husband and father living in Louisville, Kentucky.I have been writing poetry for about 25 years.Each of these recent poems is dear to me - so please linger and enjoy!I have more to add later. Thanks for reading! more…

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