This is an analysis of the poem Black Swans that begins with:
As I lie at rest on a patch of clover
In the Western Park when the day is done. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccbadadcccd eeeeaaae cfcfcXcf fbfbcccX adadeeed bbbbcccbXafafffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101010 0010110101 1110111110 0110100101 11101011010 00101001010 11101001010 1011100111 11111101010 1010101101 00101101110 10101001001 11101111010 11101001110 10101001010 1011100101 00101001110 1011100101 10111101010 110100101 10111001010 11101001110 10101101110 0010100101 11111011010 0011101101 111001011010 1110100101 00101111010 00111101110 11111101010 1100111111 1001111110 110101111 10101101010 101101101 11111101010 10101111010 10101011010 1011100111 11111001110 0011111101 10111111110 1110111101 11111101010 1111011010 11101111110 1011101101 11111111110 1111000101 00111101110 111101101 11101111010 11111101110 11101001010 0110110111 0010101010 1010100101 11111101110 111100101 11101111010 11111001010 1101011010 10101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, ye, as, we, should, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, where, we, in, and are repeated.
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- summary of Black Swans;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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