This is an analysis of the poem Real Swimming that begins with:
I saw him in the distance, as the train went speeding by,
A shivery little fellow standing in the sun to dry....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc ddeeXfcc ggXXffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100101011101 010010101000101 101010101011111 111000101110101 111011101110111 111001110110111 111111010010101 111010101010101 11110101110101 1110101001110101 111010110010101 111111101011101 10111010111010110 01010101110111 1101101010100001 111000101010001 101110101110101 1111101000110111 110111001011101 0010101011101 111111101011101 111000111111111 111010100110101 111010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 484
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, as, his, knew, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, when are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Real Swimming;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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