This is an analysis of the poem The Twelve Dancing Princesses that begins with:
If you danced from midnight
to six A.M. who would understand?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdeXbafeB gedhXB fheijXXB jbafkB aafaXXdB jaXljdB hfXlmXdB hflbinoffXelmlkgf biXffebd lecdehpejppeeoejlfabqmlblhd flgjnnifXnn cfdaha ibanha foblXoidlfqpXhplafhlfgilm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,9,6,8,6,8,7,8,17,8,27,11,6,6,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 01111101 01011 1101 01101010 111100 100011 100011 10111 0101010 1101 010001 110101 101011 1010110 1011110010 1101 0100 010010 1001001 101111010 1010000111 10111011 11000010 1101 00101 110001101 100101 10111110 10111011 1101 01010 010111 1101101 11111111 10011110 1101100110 100110011 1101 00101 100001 101011 10010010 01110100011 1010110110 1101 011 001110101 10011010 100001100 011010 11111 11101001010 1101 1 011110 111001010 11010111 001011010 1101111001 11110001 111011 01010 111111110 011101010 110011010 101000110 11010010 1101101 011111001 1101 10101 1101101010 010111101 101011001 1110110100 101010101 1111010 110101 011010110 10111101 101001001 1010010 1111110 11011011 110100101 1111010101 11101111 1010010111 11111101 010101111 1110010101 1001000101 011101 111101 111110 1010011011 1101101010010 10101001 110101010001 101010100 11001011010 11001001110 1101010 1011111 101010101 11110101 11101010 01010111 0101011 111111 1010111 01010100100 01101010 1111101100 1010111101 101011011 11100111 110101010 100100010110 010100101 101111010111 10101010101 1101101010 010011101110 101101111 101001001101 110101011 1111101001 1001111010 11011010111 1011011101 10111010 110101010100 0101010101 11001001100 1100101010 1010010100010 100010101 0101111 010101001001 111010111 110100010 1111010001010 0111111010 1010010001011 111111 101011111110 011110100010 10011111001 1001101001010 0101010 0110010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 153
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, and, to, they, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words having, she, and, the, as, never are repeated.
The author used the same words the, next at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word understand at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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