This is an analysis of the poem A Dancer's Life that begins with:
The lights in the theater fail. The long racks
Of costumes abandoned by the other dancers...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdceadcdfgehgacagbcieXXffihXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001001011 001010101010 100100101 010101100101 1110110101011 10110010101 10101111001 00010101011 101001110011 11101101 101101001 01000101010 110100101010 110110101 10110111 101101010010 0010010100110 110001011001 0001001010 1001001011010 10111010101 110101001010 0100101101 00111011001 010110011101 0101010110 110100100010 10100100110 11010111001 11100100101 01110100101 10110010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1426
- Average number of words per stanza: 252
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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