This is an analysis of the poem On The Swallow (From The Greek) that begins with:
Attic maid! with honey fed,
Bear'st thou to thy callow brood... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1101101 1010001 1010101 1110101 1010101 1110101 10101001 1110101 1010101 1010111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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