This is an analysis of the poem The Wounded Vulture that begins with:
A kingly vulture sat alone,
Lord of the ruin round,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dbbb dbbb befe dege Xddd ghch bidi faXaXidbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 100101 11010100 010101 01010111 010111 11010101 010111 01110011 101001 10111111 010101 11010101 111101 11010101 110101 01010101 010101 1001100101 100101 1001100 110101 10010101 001101 110111001 110101 11011101 110111 10110111 110101 01010101 010101 11010111 011101 10010101 0101111 11110101 110111 11110101 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Wounded Vulture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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