This is an analysis of the poem The Falcon that begins with:

I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed,
The sort of lover, avaricious named;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddccaaXXXeccXa aaffff aaffgghhiijj aakkllffXakkee aaaadd aammff ccggaallllffaa ffaannaaaa bbffaa llggbbbb jj llffaajjgg ffaXiimmffXgaaffaaoo fXbb aall aaaaaahhlljjffjjaaaa fbfXm aaaakhaallooaakkggjjppbbqqjjoo aaeerrllaaggfflXggbbaa aakk qqaa llbbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,14,6,12,14,6,6,14,10,6,8,2,10,20,4,4,20,5,30,22,4,4,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110111 0101010001 1001001101 0100010110 0101100101 0101100101 0101110101 1101010101 10101011101 0111110101 0101011101 0101111101 0111010001 100011110001 010111001100 1101011101 1111010010 01101000101 0111110100 0101011101 1110110011001 0111010101 0101010111 1101000101 0101110101 0101011111 0101110111 1101110101 0111010001 0101110111 1101111101 1101011101 0101110001 1111011101 0101010011 11010100101 01110011111 01001011101 0101110101 1111010101 1101010011 0101010101 0101010101 1101011001 1101010101 0111010111 11011101000 01110101110 0101010101 010010010001 0111010101 1111010101 10000010111 0100010101 1101010011 0101010111 0101010101 1011110111 1101100111 1111110101 1111011101 11010010101 0101010101 1101110010 0100110111 1101010101 0111010101 1111110101 0101011101 01011111010 1101010101 0100011101 0101011011 1111010001 0101010111 1111000101 1011010011 0101010101 1100110111 0101010101 0101110011 0101010101 0101110101 1101010011 1101010111 0101011111 1101000111 1101010101 110101001001 0111110101 1001011101 1100010101 1011010101 10011111101 1111010001 1101010101 0101111101 11011010101 1101010001 0101001010 0101110011 1111110101 1101010111 0101011101 1101010101 1111110111 01000111101 11010100101 1101111101 11011000101 1101011101 1101110111 1101110101 1111110101 1101111101 0101110111 1101011101 11010001100 11010010101 11001110011 1101010101 1111010101 0110011001 1101010111 1101010100 1101110101 01100001101 01001010101 1100010101 1011010101 0101111111 1101011001 1101010111 1111010111 1011100101 1101010010 01110100001 0111010111 1101000101 0100011101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1111110101 1111110001 1101010001 0100011111 0101110101 1111111101 1101010101 0100010101 1101010101 1111110101 0100010101 1111011101 1111011101 1111110101 0101000101 0101110111 1101010101 1101110011 111101011 1101101101 111111111 1 010110110 1101010101 01010010101 0101100101 1110011111 0110111101 1101110101 1111111101 1101110101 11010101101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101110101 1111011101 11010101101 0101010101 01011101001 1101010001 1111010001 1101011101 1111001101 01100010101 1101110101 1100010101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 1001110111 1101010111 0101011101 1101000011 0101010101 0111111101 1111010101 11001010001 1111100111 1101011001 1101111111 0111001111 1101111101 0101000101 1111110101 11011010101 1111010001 0101010011 1101010101 1101011110 1111010111 0111011101 1101110101 1011010101 1111010101 1111011101 1101011101 0101111101 1111010001 0101110111 0101011101 1111110101 1100111101 11011100101 1101010011 1101000101 1111010011 0111010101 0111010101 1101110111 110101001 11011101001 1111011101 0101010101 0001010101 0101010110 0101111101 0111010111 1111010101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 243
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, and, his, she, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, when are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines resolved is repeated).

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  • summary of The Falcon;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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