This is an analysis of Robin’s Secret by Katharine Lee Bates.
’T IS the blithest, bonniest weather for a bird to flirt a feather,
For a bird to trill and warble, all his wee red breast a-swell.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xbcb bbab XbXb Xbab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10010101010101010 101011101011101 11010111011111110 1010111101010101 11111101010110110 001010111111101 1110111000111010 1111111101010101 1111001001101110 111011100110101 1010111010101010 101111101010101 1111101010101010 1111101011010100 1011101011101110 1011111101010101 1111011011111010 111010101001101 11111001010101110 111010101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
never, i, chirp
