Analysis of Lux, My Fair Falcon
Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503 (Allington Castle, Kent) – 1542 (Clifton Maybank House, Dorset)
Lux, my fair falcon, and your fellows all,
How well pleasant it were your liberty.
Ye not forsake me that fair might ye befall,
But they that sometime liked my company,
Like lice away from dead bodies they crawl.
Lo, what a proof in light adversity.
But ye, my birds, I swear by all your bells,
Ye be my friends, and so be but few else.
| Scheme | ABABABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111001101 1110101100 11011111101 111111100 1101111011 1101010100 1111111111 1111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 344 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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