Analysis of playground swings.



Sensuous breezes caress my face,
So much peace comes with this place,
Cicada calls the only sound,
The hawk soars with no one else around,

Smile and laugh for no reason,
Maybe for that this is love season,
No where else can grass so grey,
Look so sweet; what can I say?

The tops of each tree turning yellow and red,
This is beauty; what more can be said?
And here I am, beneath it all,
Sweet sorrow, summer fades into fall.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 100100111 1111111 01010101 011111101 1011110 101111110 1111111 1111111 01111101001 111011111 01110111 110101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 412
Words 82
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alexis Esteb

I am directed by emotions alone. I am quite lonely, often springing to tears for no reason. I have a tendency to absorb the emotions of anyone near me. more…

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