This is an analysis of the poem To A Dancer that begins with:
Intoxicatingly
Her eyes across the footlights gleam,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaB bccB deeb dffb XXXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100000 01010111 01010101 011111 010111 100101010 000101101010 011111 1000100 0100100111 01000101 011101 010100 010101001 10010101 110111 11100000 11010101 1100010001 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of To A Dancer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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