This is an analysis of the poem The Swamp that begins with:
FOR one whole day and a long night through
We made our camp...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcddceefggheecccXaaijjhffXiiiiiXkkXddcbblccciiXhhhcchllXhhhiikbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111110111 1111 0011110101 111100111 1101 1011100111 010101101 0101 1001110111 110110101 1111 0010100111 110110101 1101 0010100111 110101111 1101 10101100111 111100100 0101 1011100101 011100111 0101 10101000101 011100101 0101 10110110101 111111111 0101 1011110111 011110111 1111 1011100111 110110111 1111 0010110101 010110101 0101 1011110111 110111101 1111 11101110101 111100111 1111 1010100101 111101101 1111 1010100101 1101101110 1101 1011100101 110100101 11001 1010100111 111111111 1101 1111110111 1111101011 1111 0110101111 111101111 1101 0011101111 111110101 0111 1011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2323
- Average number of words per stanza: 446
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, thus are repeated.
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- summary of The Swamp;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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