This is an analysis of the poem The Belated Swallow that begins with:
And the birds of the air have nests.”
Belated swallow, whither flying?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaXbbbX ccdXaad eXaXXXa ffefffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100111 010101010 010101010 0111 101111010 110111010 110101010 1101 110101010 0100110010 1011 011111100 1101111110 110101010 0101 011111110 110111010 0111 110111010 110111010 110011100 01001 1100010111 110111111 0111 110111111 110111011 011101011 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; thy, thou, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, how are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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