This is an analysis of the poem Swallows At Zimbabwe that begins with:
Great Zimbabwe in the sun,
Far away...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccddbBeeedffddbBgghaijaahbij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001 101 111 0010101 11101010 1110 1111101 10101101 101 111 10010101 111 10010101 1011101 1011111 1110111 1110101 0111 111 111 111 111 1010101 1010101 10100101 1011111 1010101 101 1101101 01010111 11 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 798
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
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