This is an analysis of the poem To A Gitana Dancing that begins with:

Because you are fair as souls of the lost are fair,
And your eyelids laugh with desire, and your laughing feet... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabccXdeedfaafdXbdgffghXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011111100111 11111001011101 11001011111011 001001011101011 11000101001 1011101110101 111111011011 1111101101011 111110010011101 011001011011001 10101101011101 111001001001011 11111001111111 0010111010011001 01011001111001 11101111101001 1011111111111 10101001001110 1001001111011 0010101011111111 11111111111 1011011011 1010010111101 11011111111 111101110101 1101001011111 1111101001 1110111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1543
  • Average number of words per stanza: 307
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and, as, you, of, i, it, that are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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