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

The bird sits spelled upon the lithe brown wrist
Of yonder turbaned fowler, who had lamed ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbacddcbebXbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111010111 010100101110 1101101101 0001011111 01011101101 11010000111 0101010101 1111010101 0101010001 0101100101 11011001111 0101010100 11001101001 0101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; it is repeated.

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