This is an analysis of the poem Song - Shake Off Your Heavy Trance that begins with:
Shake off your heavy trance,
And leap into a dance,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbcddaeeaffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 110001 11110101 1101010 01010101 1101010 1111111 10010101 1001 11010101 11010101 110101 11110011 01011111 11110101 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word each is repeated.
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