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

Who would not be Sir Hubert, for his birth and bearing fine,
His rich sky-skirted woodlands, valleys flowing oil and wine;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaAbbbcccdddeeefffdddbbbbbbggghhhdddeeehbheeeeeegggbhhdXdeeeaaaiiiXbbjjjccXeeekkkfffdddjjjeeeeeejjjeeXjjjjjjeeebbbeeeeeeaaajjjlllaaajjjhhhXaaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 142,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101101011101 01110111010111 11001101010101 11111101110101 01010101111101 11110101110101 01011111011101 010111011100111 01010101101001 11110101110101 111100101110101 1110111000110001 11111101011101 11110101010111 001101001010101 11100101110111 11010101110101 11011111011101 11011100010101 11010101010101 11011101110001 11110101110111 10010101010011 11011100110111 11010101010011 11010100010100 110101010111101 11111100110001 0101010000100111 01010110011101 01010101010111 11010101111101 111110101011101 11111100011101 11111100011111 11011101110101 11100101100111 01000101111001 11010100010101 11111101010100 11011111001110 11111101110101 11011101110101 01001111110111 11000101110001 11011100010101 11001101110101 11111111010101 01110101010101 01010101010101 110000101110101 11000100010011 10010111010001 11011111010001 110111001010001 011101011101000 11010101110101 101110111110101 011111010100111 0101011110101 01110101011101 11010111010111 11000100010101 101000101010101 01000111011111 1110101110111001 11001101010100 101011101010101 10010101110001 11011101010111 11010100110101 01010100110101 11011111110101 1101110101011 1101100000010111 11101111010101 110110001010001 11111101110101 01111101011111 010110100110001 11010101010101 11110111110101 01110100010101 11010111011101 11010101100101 01010101010101 01010101011101 11010101011001 110001101011101 01000101011111 11010101010101 11010100010101 11010111110101 01000101010101 11011101010101 11110100011101 01110101110011 01111101011101 1010101011100001 10111111101111 01101101010101 111111100111000 11110111110011 01011101010101 11010101110111 110111010100111 111001111111111 11110101110100 11101101110101 0100101000011101 11110100110101 11010000011101 01010101010101 11110100010111 11011101010111 11101100010101 110101000110101 11000101010101 11011101110111 11111101011011 110100111110111 11011111000111 11111111111101 11010101110001 111101011100001 01011111111101 01110100110011 01010101110111 11010100110101 11111100011101 110000100011101 01010101111111 11011111110111 01011101110110 0100101000101011 11110101010011 01010101011001 10010101110101 11110101011101 01110111010111 11001101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4310
  • Average number of words per stanza: 788
  • Amount of lines: 141
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sir, hubert, and, his, of, in, for, to, him, she, he, cuckoo, her, no, it, that, you, i, as are repeated.

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

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