This is an analysis of Bird With Two Right Wings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

And now our government
a bird with two right wings…

Browse poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcbcdbeaadXaXefXXcbbghgghXffccX
  • Stanza lengths: 34,
  • Metre: 111100 010111 110101 11111011011 11010 100101010100 0111 11010010 1010111 1110010011 10100110110011 111001110 110001001 1111001010101 110010111100 11110100 1111011001 11101110100 110010101 1101000 1010010 1010110 1110111 010101001011 11011111 001001 01101 10001011101 10011110 01101110100 0100111100 110101101 000010 101100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

its, and, now

Anaphora

and