Analysis of Swing-Set
I am shiny and new.
Made for young children and the young at heart.
I proudly uphold my appendages
As they oscillate back and forth,
Back and forth,
And the air fills with peals of joyful laughter.
I am loved.
But children do grow older,
And I am not looked to
As a source of enjoyment any longer.
Time passes and my once luminous
Chains are flaked with rust
Never to be used again, I am disassembled,
And taken to the graveyard
Of forgotten thrills and discarded dreams.
| Scheme | AXXBBCX CACXXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 111001 1111000111 1100110100 1110101 101 00111111010 111 1101110 011111 10110101010 110011100 11111 101110111010 010101 1010100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 457 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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