This is an analysis of the poem Dance Of Death that begins with:
Death has taken me out for a swing.
At first I didn't drop from the quickstep...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX aXXa bXX XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111011101 1111010010 00111101 01110111 1101110010 010101010 0101010101 011011110 1110111111 00011110101 1110111101 110011011 10010100110 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Dance Of Death;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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