This is an analysis of the poem To Dan that begins with:
STEP me now a bridal measure,
Work give way to love and leisure, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB XXbB ccbb ddbb ccbb eeff XebB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 11101110 1011101 1011101 10101110 11101010 1110101 1011101 11111010 10111110 1010101 1110101 10100110 10101110 1110111 1011101 10101110 10111110 1110111 1101101 10101010 11101010 0010101 10010101 10111010 10101010 1010101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of To Dan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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