This is an analysis of the poem Sway With Me that begins with:
sway with me, everything sad -
madmen in stone houses...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXcaXddXEEEcXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 100110 011 1010111 110010 01 10111 101101 111101 11110 11011 111 111 111 01101 101101 111 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; used is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words used, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Sway With Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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