This is an analysis of From The Short Story What The Swallows Did by Louisa May Alcott.

Swallow, swallow, neighbor swallow,
Starting on your autumn flight,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbabXcXcAbXbXdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 10101010 1011101 10101110 1010101 10101110 1110111 10101110 1110111 10101010 1110111 110101010 1010111 10111110 1010101 101010011 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

swallow

Anaphora

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