This is an analysis of the poem The Swallows that begins with:
AH! swallows, is it so?
Did loving lingering summer, whose slow pace... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccacX dedeffdfd dgdgccdcd hihiccjcj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001 01010010111 1001110101 10010011101 1101010111 1111110001 111101 110001001 010010101 010111 01001111101 1111111111 1111110011 11010110001 1111011111 01001011 11010101 11110101 111111 0101110111 10010010111 1111100101 01110100101 1011011111 111101 1111010111 11011111 110111 1001110101 1011101101 1011111101 1101110001 1110110111 011101 11000101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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- summary of The Swallows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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