This is an analysis of the poem From The Short Story What The Swallows Did that begins with:
Swallow, swallow, neighbor swallow,
Starting on your autumn flight, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabXcXcAbXbXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1011101 10101110 1010101 10101110 1110111 10101110 1110111 10101010 1110111 110101010 1010111 10111110 1010101 101010011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; swallow is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word are is repeated.
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