Analysis of The Taming of the Falcon

Emma Lazarus 1849 (New York City) – 1887 (New York City)



The bird sits spelled upon the lithe brown wrist
Of yonder turbaned fowler, who had lamed
No feather limb, but the winged spirit tamed
With his compelling eye. He need not trust
The silken coil, not set the thick-limed snare;
He lures the wanderer with his steadfast gaze,
It shrinks, it quails, it trembles yet obeys.
And, lo! he has enslaved the thing of air.
The fixed, insistent human will is lord
Of all the earth;--but in the awful sky
Reigns absolute, unreached by deed or word
Above creation; through eternity,
Outshining the sun's shield, the lightening's sword,
The might of Allah's unaverted eye.


Scheme AABCDEEDFGHIFG
Poetic Form
Metre 0111010111 110110111 1101101101 1101011111 0101110111 1101001111 111111101 0111010111 0101010111 1101100101 11011111 0101010100 10011011 011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 615
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 478
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 13, 2023

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Emma Lazarus

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