This is an analysis of the poem The Windhover that begins with:
To Christ our Lord
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaaXaaa bXb XbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0111 1101010101 101110111100010 0010101011101110 11111010100101 001001111111 101111101101110 0101111010 110100100100001 1101101111111 10101011011010 11100110011101 110001111110 111110111 1101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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