This is an analysis of The Mother Bird by Walter de la Mare.

Through the green twilight of a hedge
I peered, with cheek on the cool leaves pressed,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbcbbdXdXbccXbbab
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 10111001 110110111 11010101 11110101 10111011 101110101 111100101 11011101 11011101 110101010 11110101 110011101 01011101 110010100 11010111 10010111 1010100101 10010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

and, her