Analysis of The Swan
The ending recaptures,
what my beginning set free
A swan in pure flight,
—wings open and free
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) |
| Metre | 0101 1101011 01011 11001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 128 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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