Analysis of The Swan
John Gould Fletcher 1886 (Little Rock) – 1950
Under a wall of bronze,
Where beeches dip and trail
Their branches in the water;
With red-tipped head and wings—
A beaked ship under sail—
There glides a single swan.
Under the autumn trees
He goes. The branches quiver,
Dance in the wraith-like water,
Which ripples beneath the sedge
With the slackening furrow that glides
In his wake when he is gone:
The beeches bow dark heads.
Into the windless dusk,
Where in mist great towers stand
Guarding a lonely strand,
That is bodiless and dim,
He speeds with easy stride;
And I would go beside,
Till the low brown hills divide
At last, for me and him.
Scheme | XABXAX XBBXXXX XCCDEEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111 11101 1100010 111101 011101 110101 100101 1101010 1001110 1100101 101001011 0111111 01111 01011 1011101 100101 11101 111101 011101 1011101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 8 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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