This is an analysis of the poem I Cannot Dance Upon My Toes that begins with:
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I cannot dance upon my Toes—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcb XcXc adad aece XdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010111 110101 11010111 011001 1110110 110101 01010101 110101 11111101 110011 110100011 110101 11110101 111101 11110101 011111 11011101 110101 1101011 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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