This is an analysis of the poem Coole Park, 1929 that begins with:

I meditate upon a swallow's flight,
Upon a aged woman and her house,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababaa cdcdcdee aXafafcX gdgdgdgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 010110101 0101111101 1111010100 1101010101 1101110101 1110000101 0111011101 11011110001 1101010101 1111000101 1101011111 1101011111 0101110111 1101000100 01111100100 1111011101 11010100100 1101000101 1101000101 1101010101 1100010101 01010010011 1111110100 11001010111 1111110011 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010001 11010100001 010100011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; that, there, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, and are repeated.

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