This is an analysis of the poem You And I Saw Hawks Exchanging The Prey that begins with:
They did the deed of darkness
In their own mid-light. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX ab XX aX cc Xd dd eXe XfX f X gXb gX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,1,1,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 01111 110111 100001 011101 100001 01110 110101 1110111 1011 1101100 1001101 101101 011101 101111 101101 101101 110100 0111001 101100 111111 111100 01000010 111011 111101 011110 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 54
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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