This is an analysis of the poem Javanese Dancers that begins with:
Twitched strings, the clang of metal, beaten drums,
Dull, shrill, continuous, disquieting: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXac dede cffc XgXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1101000100 11010101 1000011111 1001010101 100101000110 01000101 0101010101 1111111011 1000110100 11010001 1100011100 1011100001 11000010100 010011101 0101010111 0101010101 0101010101 11010101 10100000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words now, with are repeated.
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