Analysis of City Hawk
From the top of Penn Center
he chose his first victim
Twenty stories up
as the train rolls below
A solitary pigeon
breaks free of the pack
Its eyes focused downward
for scraps that might show
His wings ever silent
with talons extended
At over a hundred
he drops from the sky
The prey in his clutches
a nest on the spire
where eyas sit waiting
—their mouths open wide
(16th & JFK Boulevard-Philadelphia: May, 2022)
Scheme | XXXA XXXA XBBX XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110 111110 10101 101101 010010 11101 111010 11111 111010 110010 110010 11101 010110 01101 11110 11101 1111001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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