This is an analysis of the poem Swing Shift Blues that begins with:
What is better than leaving a bar
in the middle of the afternoon...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXXXecXccaecXabXXdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011001 001000101 01100011 1010000011 011101010000 011110001 10011111 11111011 0111111 111110110 11011101 101110101 010110101 1010110101 001101 11011101001 10001001 1110100 011001010 111011111 111010011 0110000101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 812
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, to, work are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines work is repeated).
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- summary of Swing Shift Blues;
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