Analysis of Shadowhawk



When next you watch the hawk in morning sun,
then only follow shadow on the hill
that shows a wandering precession
cross an angled plane. Light ties
the tether there that lightly lies
from hill to hawk, from hawk to hill.
Unseen, unfelt, unerring does it draw
the figure of a flight,
omitting one dimension, would the same
do for an angel, though one saw
above no trace of brightness.
While the sky burns blue in sunflame,
high flies shadowhawk, in spiral winging,
lively, lonely, lovely, singing.


Scheme ABACCBDEFDGFHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 110101101 110100010 1110111 01011101 11111111 0111111 010101 0101010101 11110111 0111110 1011101 11101010 10101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 484
Words 87
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 394
Words per stanza (avg) 87
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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