This is an analysis of the poem Dancing Adairs that begins with:
Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel,
Flitting out of the shadow into the spotlight, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb bcXc cXde edac cXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101011110 101001100011 1000110101010 10011111010 10011111010 11101110000110 1110101111111 111110101010 111110101010 110111111011 1101001111011 111101111010 111101111010 11111101111 11010111010 011001111010 111001111010 111101101010 111111110010 1110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, as, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words firefly's, till, how, now are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines evanescent, silence, elusive are repeated).
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