This is an analysis of the poem She Of The Dancing Feet Sings that begins with:
And what would I do in heaven pray,
Me with my dancing feet?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe fcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111110101 101101 11110111 1010111 1111100011 1101001 01010111 1110110 01010100 101101 01010111 110101 01010101 010111 11010111 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same words and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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