This is an analysis of the poem Swinging that begins with:
Under the boughs of spring
She swung in the old rope-swing.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AA bb cc dd ee AA ff cc Xg gg ddXaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001 1100111 0101101 0110101 0101101 0110101 0101111 0101111 0101101 0110111 1001001 1100111 1111101 100100 1100111 111111 0010100 0010101 11001010 01101111 0101111 11101001 0100111 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 62
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 Swinging;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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