This is an analysis of Branch Library by Edward Hirsch.
I wish I could find that skinny, long-beaked boy
who perched in the branches of the old branch library.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aX XX Xa bb Xa
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 111111101101 1100100011110 11010100101001 1010101010101 101110010110 1100110101 1110101110101 101000101101 001001110 101011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 10
