Analysis of The Swing
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside--
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown--
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111111001 100111 11111011 100111 100101001 111111 100101001 10010 111110101 110111 1001111001 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 366 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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