This is an analysis of the poem The Cruel Falcon that begins with:
Contemplation would make a good life, keep it strict, only
The eyes of a desert skull drinking the sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcaXbbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10101100110110 01001011001 1011110 1000011 110110011001 10101101 0111111 001111 010110100 1100010010101 1111010110 1001010 111001101 01011 1
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 513
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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