This is an analysis of the poem Sister Songs-An Offering To Two Sisters - Part The First that begins with:
The leaves dance, the leaves sing,
The leaves dance in the breath of the Spring.... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aababXaXcdcdeedffgXhffhaaah XFijKIXK X lmlmXmliiilXaahnnXnngggfffaaha XFiikiXK X ddllooppXfhXffhmXmXqqnfgghhnfllXbXhhaa XFijkIXK X XhXfXpfggfiXXiXfgXeerrehehheXelllliXlmddX XFijKIXK X XppmXmfhbhllfXbbbfggffllagagahahhhXee ffijkIXK X XllXffXXXghhggimllbXbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,8,1,30,8,1,38,8,1,41,8,1,37,8,1,28,8,1,14,8,1,62,8,1,25,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 0110010001 1101 1101 10101 01100 1010001001001 110100100 11001101001 01110101 11001101101 111100101 0011100110 01001001010 0100101101 01010101 111 10110101 1011100110 101010100 1011 1001000101 010010101 101 101001 1011100 01010101 11011111010 010011000111 11010001 11010101 11000100 110111011101 0101010 1100100 1 11110101 010100 110101001 1010100 11111001 111100 01011101 110110 01 01010101 01010101 11010100 1011111 1110100 11110100 1110001 0011001 1001101101 1101010 11100010001 1100111001 01001101 10010111 10011111 10110101 10110101 1010100 1000101 1010111 1010101 1101010110110 110101000111 111111001 11010101 1100100 11101010101 111110 1100100 1 11110111 111101 111 101 11111 11101001 11001 101 101010010 1010101 1101 0010001 1011111 1011010 1101101 011001010 10100110 010100110 10101010 101101 100101 1110101 10111101 101 0101 1011101 111111 110010101 11001101 11011001 1010001 1111010 101101 1010101 11101110 11011100 1110111 1011101 110001011010 010011000111 110010101 01010101 01000100 110111011101 0101010 1100100 1 111101 10010101 101110 11001101 111 101 1110001 0010101 110101001 1010011 1011101 1011100 1010010 11011101 100101110 10101010 11001101 1011010 1010101 0101111101 11001010 1011110 1000111011 100010111 1110111 11001101 1110101 10010101 01011100 1010101 01110011 1011011101 1011010001 1101011111 10101001 111110000 01001010101 1010100 1001010101 1111000111 111111111000 11011010110 110101000111 1011111 11010101 11000100 110111011101 0101010 1100100 1 1111000 11110101 0111011 11011100 101010 10010100 1011101 1001011 01101001 1011101 101 111101 101011 0110100 110101001 001 10100101 110101101 10111101 1110101 01001 1110011 1001101001 11101101 101001010 1100100101 101011010 100100101 1101011010 1001011011 1011101010 100111011 11110111 101100111 01011100 101 1110001101 111111001011 01010100010011 11011101 11001101 11011100 110111011101 1101010 1100100 1 10101100 1110 111001110 01010100 11101010 1010 11101110 111100 1010100 1010101 101 011 1111101 01010101001 0101011101 11101100100 1111 010101 01011100010 10001000110100 011101010101 1111 1101010101 10010101 1111011101 1111110101 0110010100 100101010101 111010111110 1001010000111 110010101 11110101 11000100 111111011101 0101010 1100100 1 01100010101 1111010011 0101011101 1011111101 111011 111011 10001101001 01010101 0101011100 011000 10111101101 111100100011 111001 110111 11001110111110 010001000111 11010101 11010101 11000100 111111011101 0101010 1100100 1 011011 1101010 111000111 1011111111 1101100100 011111 1101110001 01001010011 110111 01110010100 111100 1101011011 100101010010 01111 0101011111 0101111101 1100010001 1111 0111001101010 100010100001 1101011100 11111100101 1001110011 111111 1101110100 111101 0101110111 101111 111001 101111010100 111101 0111000 10111111101 111100 1101111101 101011 1111111101 0111010111 11100110110 1000101 1101001101 10001 111101 0101 1101000101 0101001101 110101 01010011 0101100101 1101010101 01010010001 111101 100110 11011011110 110011100111 11011101001 01111101001 1111111101 1101111001 1111010101 100101 1101011000 11111011010 0101100100011 11011101 11110101 11000100 110111011101 0101010 1100100 1 11011010101 11001111100 1101 1101001101 1011110111 10011110000 1110111 1111 0110010111 11111111010 01001011101 0101110101 100101011 01011 101101 1111000101 110011 01111101001 1001110101 111111 01001010101 0111011 1001 0101110001 010101110001 111010111101 1101110000111 1111101 01010111 11000100 111111011110 1 110010 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 383
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; leaves, dance, for, of, sylvia, in, their, to, wind, from, like, they, her, him, and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, for, sat, once, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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