This is an analysis of The Two Swans by Lesbia Harford.

There's a big park just close to where we live —
Trees in a row…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbbcddXeeXcXXee
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 1011110111 1001 1101100111 1001010101 0111 01000110101 1111010101 0101 1101000101 0011010101 1111 1111110101 1111011111 1101 0111111110 0101010011 11001 0101111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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