This is an analysis of the poem The Swan-Neck that begins with:
Evil sped the battle play
On the Pope Calixtus' day;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeffggbbhhiiXcXXaaffiiaajXXcddjjaaiiccaa kkkX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011001 10111011 01010101 1011101 1010101 1011101 10100101 1010101 1011111 1110111 1011111 1110101 1111001 1111101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1110111 1110101 1111001 1011101 1011101 10100010 1110111 10111011 1111101 1110101 1010101 1010111 1110111 1110111 1110111 1010101 1011101 1011101 1010111 1010101 1011101 1111111 1011101 1111111 110011 1100101 1100101 1110101 1000101 1110101 11101010 10101110 10101010 100010 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 547
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, of, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, rousing are repeated.
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- summary of The Swan-Neck;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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