This little Song Sparrow was sitting on a nearby branch, as I was out walking along Lake Phalen with my wife, the other afternoon. He was singing away to us a private concert. No fear was shown, as we approached and listened for several minutes. Then, he took a little bow and turned around to face away from us, as if to say, "Thank you, I done." Of course, I had to write about him.

This poem is written in abab quatrains, with coupled repeating refrain. The syllable count for each quatrain/couplet set is: 6,6,7,6-10,10. The first two quatrains differ in meters in each. Line 1 is trochaic. Line 2 is iambic. Line 3 is feminine iambic. Line 4 reverts to iambic. The couplet is Spondaic. However, the third quatrain is all iambic trimeter.

This photograph was taken by the author himself on June 28, 2016.

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