This is an analysis of the poem The Two Swans (A Fairy Tale) that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbccdcdd X efeffdfdd X gXghhghgg X hhhhhghgg a ididdhdhh a ejejjkjkk X Xhahhahaa X fgfgglgll X kikiilill j aeaeegegg a hdhddfdff X ididdjdjj Xmhmhhghgg X enenngngg X XdXddedee X kgkggjgjj Xdidiieiee X ololldlXX X hchccpcpp X hihiikik
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,10,1,9,1,9,1,9,10,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,1,9,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0101001101 0100111001 0101010011 1011110111 0101100101 1111010111 1101011111 1101111101 010101011111 1 1101010101 1100111111 1101100101 0101010101 1100110011 0101110111 0101011011 1001111001 100101010101 1 0111110101 1001110010 1001011101 1100110111 1111100111 1111110001 1111110001 0101010011 111101110101 1 1110010101 1001100111 1111010101 1001010111 1111110011 1100110101 1111111101 1101010101 111101100100 1 1101010101 0101010101 0101011011 1011110101 1001011101 11110010101 1111011101 1101010101 010101010001 1 11010100001 0101010001 0101010101 1111010111 1111110101 10001011111 0101000101 0111010001 010111011011 1 1101110100 11100001101 1101111101 1111001101 0101110101 1001010111 1111010111 1001011101 110101111101 1 1111000111 1001011111 1101110011 11001110111 1100110111 0101010101 1001011101 0001010101 111001010111 1 1111000101 0101111101 1001010101 1101110011 1000011100 0101010101 01001010101 1101010101 010101010101 1 1110110101 0101011101 1110010111 1101111101 1101011101 0101000101 1101010101 0101010101 111111110001 1 1111010101 1111010101 1101111001 1001010101 0101010111 0111001101 1101011011 1111000111 100101110101 1 1111011101 1101010101 01111101001 1001010111 0101100101 1001000101 1101010101 0101110101 101001110001 1 01001101101 1101101101 1111010101 1101010111 1100111011 0100111101 0101100101 0111010001 110011110111 1 1111110101 10010001010 11010010111 01000110110 11010100010 0101100101 11010100110 11001010101 100101110101 1 1101010110 0111010101 1101001110 0101000111 0101011101 1101011101 1001011101 1001011101 100101111101 1 0101110101 1101011001 0111010101 0101010111 110101011 011100011 1101010111 1001111100 010101000101 1 1101110101 1111110001 1011010011 0101111111 1001010111 1011010001 1101110101 1111110111 101101111101 1 1111001001 0101011111 1011110101 1101110111 1001110001 01111000101 1101011101 10010110110 10110100100100 1 110111101 0111010101 11010100101 1011000011 1101011101 1101000101 1101011101 1101110001 010011110001 1 1100011101 0101011001 10010001001 0101011100 1101011100 01110101001 0111001101 0101101101 100101101101 1 11110001001 1001010001 100010011101 0101011101 01001111001 0101110111 1101011101 1101010001 110111110111 1 11110100111 11110111111 1011111101 11111111011 11110111011 11110111011 11011101011 1001111111 110101101101 1 11010011011 11111111011 10010110111 1101011110 11010101011 1101010110 1111110101 1001011101 0101011100010 1 1101110101 1101011101 1100011111 1101010101 0111011111 1011111111 11010101000 1111110001 110101010101 1 1101110101 01110101001 1111000101 1100111101 1111010101 01011001001 1011101011 1101011101 010101010111 1 1111010101 0101011111 0101011101 1001011101 1111010001 1001010101 1101110110 0101000111 11110110101 1 0101010101 1111110101 1111011101 1101101101 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010111 110101010101 1 0111010101 1100010111 0100010101 1101111101 1101000111 0101010101 1001010101 1001011111 010111110101 1 1011100111 0101010111 0101010101 10010100011 10011100001 0101010101 11010111011 0101100101 100101100101 1 1111000101 0001010111 11010000111 1001010101 0111010110 1001111101 1101011101 1110010111 10010110001 1 11011001010 1101010011 11111001010 0101010101 1001011001 10011010101 1101010101 0101010101 110101010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 60
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 340
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, with, their, no, her, his, she, him, ', my, that, marble, now are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, their, and, that, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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