This is an analysis of the poem The Swallows that begins with:
From Jean Pierre Claris Florian
I love to see the swallows come... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXabcccX dedecbcX dfdfcgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110100 11010101 1110100 1001101 10001001 1111101 1110111 1010101 1100101 1011101 1010101 101111 01010101 1011011 1010100 1110111 1110001 0110101 1000101 1010001 1010101 1000101 10101010 1010101 10100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'last is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Swallows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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