This is an analysis of the poem Modern Love Xlvii: We Saw The Swallows that begins with:
We saw the swallows gathering in the sky,
And in the osier-isle we heard them noise. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcddddbeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100001 1001011101 1110111101 1100010011 1001000101 1101111111 01001010111 1111111111 0100011101 010000100101 1110011111 0100010101 1111100101 0101010001 1111010111 0110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 699
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
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