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?…

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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

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