This is an analysis of The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson.
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111011001 100111 1111001001 100111 100111001 111111 101111011 100101 111110101 110111 1001111001 100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and, down
Anaphora
up