This is an analysis of the poem Swiss Air that begins with:
I'm a gay tra, la, la,
With my fal, lal, la, la,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb aXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001111 011111 111 111 11001 11111111 11111 11111 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, my, ha are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines la is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word repeat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase la connects the lines.
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