This is an analysis of the poem Swinging The Lead that begins with:
Said the soldier to the Surgeon, "I've got noises in me head
And a kind o' filled up feeling after every time I'm fed; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXAXbbXAX ccXAX aaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001010110011 1011111010100101 1111111011110110 10101 1010 1010001010111111 111010100010001 1110101010101110 10101 1010 1011111101110111 11011101111101 1110101111101010 10101 1010 111100101110111 111010101011101 1010101011101100 10101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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.
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- summary of Swinging The Lead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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