This is an analysis of the poem The Black Swan that begins with:
When the swans turned my sister into a swan
I would go to the lake, at night, from milking:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaa XXcXX ddcec eadXX ebeXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111100001 11100111010 01111101101 0111101110 101111001101 11010111 10010110100 111101110 10011011010 11011111010 101110111 001011011001 1110111010 11100100101101 11111011010 1111111001 11111101001 110010111 01111001010 110110010010 00111001 110101000111 0011111001 1011101101110100 1111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; would, and, i, sister are repeated.
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- summary of The Black Swan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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