Analysis of Swing across the Valley.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
A rainbow of people
Swung across the valley
Hands strong as vices
No turning backwards
The promised land weighty
A greener pasture
A fit for all sizes
A land for the future.
| Scheme | ABCDBECE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 101010 11110 11010 010110 01010 011110 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Written on October 03, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on October 03, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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