This is an analysis of the poem Basket Dance that begins with:
Dance!
Dance! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXaacdcaadd ccaacXdDDXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1 0101001101 1010011 1010101 1 1 0101110 0110111 01010 1 1 011011010 01101111 101010 1001010 1111 111 11111 0110101111 111110 10 10 111011 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; catch is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dance, he, the, perhaps, catch are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dance, meal, dancing, it are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dance connects the lines.
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