This is an analysis of the poem The Island Hawk that begins with:
Hushed are the whimpering winds on the hill,
Dumb is the shrinking plain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcEfE gcXcaaaacEFE fhfhegegcefE gigifjfjcefE jXejghghcEFE jjejbjbXcefE gbjbkhkhcefE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101001101 100101 10110100111 11100101 1011111111 10111011 1101110111 111011 111010101 11011001 1101100111 1111111 1111101101 1110101 1101110110 1101101 1100100111 11010111 11100111 101111 111010101 11011001 1101100111 1111111 1100110111 100111 11001001101 111101001 11001000101 11111001 00111011101 111001 110010101 10111001 101100111 1111111 1100110111 11100101 0110101101 1110101 10011101 011010001 00100100111 11110111 11001001011 10111001 1101100111 1111111 11101101001 1010101 10100111001 00100101 011101101 11001001 011101101 1110101 0100100101 11011001 1101100111 1111111 110011101 11100101 00101111011 111111001 110110101 01101001 1011101111 00100101 110010101 1111001 1101100111 1111111 0110010101 1110101 00110111111 1101111 011100101 10110101 10111101001 1011011 11001001001 1111001 1101100111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, hawk, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words does, who, she, in are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word quest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase who connects the lines.
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- summary of The Island Hawk;
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