This is an analysis of Swingin' Douglas by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
There's a breeze about the mountains, it is singin' in the trees
A song to mock the little men who chose to live at ease,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeXaaff ggffaXhhddAiaa ccjjAeaakkadff kkllAammhhAcaa Xccaajjiijjaaff
- Stanza lengths: 14,14,14,14,15,
- Metre: 101010100010001 01010101110111 11111101110111 11101011111001 1011 11 10001 101100111010000 01100111010101 11011101011101 1011 11 10000 10111010111101 01110101111001 00110111011001 01110001010111 11110111111111 1011 101 10101 011010101010001 11010101110101 01110101100100 1011 101 10111 11010101010001 101110111011101 01011101010101 001110111010101 101000111011101 1011 101 10111 101011101010101 00101011111101 111010111110101 1011 101 10101 111010101110101 111011011000001 0011011101101 11000101010001 111000111110001 1011 101 10101 101010101010101 101110101010101 11011101010101 1011 101 10101 1011111010010101 01011111111100 0011011110101 000111101011011 11011111010101 011 011 011101 11111101111111 101010100011100 110111001110001 1011 11 10101 101110100011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 74
Repeated words/phrases
in, and, for, him, his, an', their, men, with
Anaphora
the, an', with
Epiphora
boy, boys, men