This is an analysis of the poem Abd-El-Kader At Toulon Or, The Caged Hawk that begins with:
No more, thou lithe and long-winged hawk, of desert-life for thee;
No more across the sultry sands shalt thou go swooping free:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX aXXd eeee ffgg ddhh bXbb iijX ddkk jjhh eebb hhXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111111010111 11010101111101 11010101010011 10011101111101 1101110010100101 011010101011001 111010101010111 0101010010110 11110101010111001 111000100010100 11101011111010 111110101010101 111010101010111 011101000110011 101110101110011 11001101110101 0111111111101 11010110110101 101001011110001 10110010011111 1100100010101 1100110110111 1001010110101 11111111011101 11011111110110 11010101010100 10101011010101 11010101111101 1111110010111 11110111110101 111011101111101 11110101010101 111011100111111 0101110100101 01011101100101 11011101010101 1111110110101 1010101001111101 1100110011111 10110010010101 110111001101001 11110001010101 11010101110101 01110100011101 111010111110101 01000101010011 11110101001110 11111101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; thou, thy, how, in, and, of, your, he, to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, how, and are repeated.
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