This is an analysis of the poem Devil's Swing that begins with:
Over the rushing river
Where shaggy fir-trees stand, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdDecd bfbf bdDbbd cdCX cdCX ghgh feac caXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 110111 01001010 110101 101101 1111 1111 0111000 010101 100101 0101110 111101 0101010 010101 1111010 1111 1111 1001010 1101010 010101 0101011 011001 10101011 1101010 1001011 0101001 10101011 1101010 0100110 010101 10010001 011111 010111 011100 011101 110111 1101111 111011 1101110 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Devil's Swing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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