This is an analysis of the poem The Swan - Vain Pleasures that begins with:
The Swan which boasted mid the tide,
Whose nest was guarded by the wave, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded dfdf ghgh igig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 11110101 10110111 11010101 01010101 01110101 010100001 11010101 11001101 10010101 11010111 010101001 01000101 11010101 10010101 1101001001 11010101 11110111 100101001 11011101 11011101 11110101 11000101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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