This is an analysis of the poem Turtle, Swan that begins with:
Because the road to our house
is a back road, meadowlands punctuated...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcde fdgfXh icbccg jjebdj cdjkdb cXlbii kXebie ffhjgj bhafbd XledXm cbfbbl jghbXj cifjlhXalcmcm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011 00111011010 110101101 111010100 11111101 1101001 1110001 01100101 00111010 100101111 110011101 101001101000100 111101011111 1001011 11010101 010101011 011011 010101001010 0011111001010 011111101 0010101010101 11101001 111110111 011110111 111011101 1101101 0010001010 11101001 0101001 0010010010011 0111001 1001001011 11111 10010011 10110111111 00101011011 01111011 111101111 11100101 010010101110 011101111 110001111 10111110 00101110101 01111010 110110011 11110100110 00010011 01010001 1110101010100 00010001 00100011 1111111101 0111110011 11110101 1101011101 11111011 0110011001 1101011001100 010110101 101111 00101010 00100101 10101110 1110011101 010110100011 110110101001 11011111010 10100110010 11111000111 10010111010 0110011 110011101001 10101001101 111110001 111001101 11101110111 111111110 1111111011 11101111111 101111001 11110011011 1010011011001010 01010111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, in, know are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, of, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Turtle, Swan;
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