This is an analysis of The Mocking-Bird by Sidney Lanier.
Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray
That o'er the general leafage boldly grew,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXaccddaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111010101 110010010101 1101011101 0101010101 0101111101 1111011101 1101110101 10010110111 1111110001 0110011011 11110100101 1100110111 1101011110 0101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14