This is an analysis of Crumbs To The Birds by Charles Lamb.

A bird appears a thoughtless thing,
He's ever living on the wing,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXab ccccb Xccccb
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,6,
  • Metre: 01010101 11010101 11110100 11010111 011111 11110101 11011101 01110011 110001101 111110 01001101 11110111 01010101 11010101 101111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

he, his