This is an analysis of the poem Dancer that begins with:
THE LADY in red, she in the chile con carne red,
Brilliant as the shine of a pepper crimson in the summer sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110010111 1010100101000101 101011011101001110100100101 0100111111001110100101010010 110010 10011011 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, red are repeated.
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