Analysis of The Falcon
Elinor Morton Wylie 1885 (Somerville, New Jersey) – 1928 (New York City, New York)
Why should my sleepy heart be taught
To whistle mocking-bird replies?
This is another bird you've caught,
Soft-feathered, with a falcon's eyes.
The bird Imagination,
That flies so far, that dies so soon;
Her wings are coloured like the sun,
Her breast is coloured like the moon.
Weave her a chain of silver twist,
And a little hood of scarlet wool,
And let her perch upon your wrist,
And tell her she is beautiful.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DXDX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11110111 11010101 11010111 1101011 010010 11111111 01110101 01110101 10011101 001011101 01010111 01011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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