Analysis of The Swing
How would you like to go up in a swing?
Up in the air so blue?
I do think it's the pleasantest thing ever a child can do.
Up in the air and over the wall till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle all over the countryside.
| Scheme | ABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111001 100111 1111011100111 100101001111111 1001010110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 230 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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