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The Windhover
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1. A. These words refer to princes and knights, respectively.
2. C. The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet with some non-traditional meter and rhymes.
3. B. This is a Christian poem.
4. A. The first stanza marvels at the bird’s ability to manage the friction of the wind.
5. C. “As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding / Rebuffed the big wind” (Lines 6-7)
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