This is an analysis of the poem The Hawk that begins with:
Swoop! Swoop!
From dizzy skies thou singest...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbCCXB deffde dgffdg dhiidh ddjjdd AXbCCXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 0101110 00101 0101 0101 0101110 0101 0101110 11011 1101 1101 0101110 00101 1101010 01111 1111 0101 1101110 01111 1111110 10101 1111 0111 1101010 00101 1011110 00111 0101 0111 1101110 11101 11 0101110 00101 0101 0101 0101110 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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