This is an analysis of the poem The Bridge: The Dance that begins with:
The swift red flesh, a winter king—
Who squired the glacier woman down the sky? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded bfbf gbgX gbgb dhdh cici jcjc ffff gkgk klkX bcbc Xmcm mdmd djdj lflf ckck dddd XXbk dcdc fbfb bdbd fnfn kdkd Xcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110101 11001010101 11010101001 1101110101 1001011101 01001001101 1101010101 11010101001 1001110101 0111000101 1011110101 11100001001 1101011101 110101110101 1101111101 1101111101 110101111001 1001011111 1111010101 1101011100 1101010111 1101011101 10110101101 1101111101 1111010101 10001000101 011000010001 11111100101 11010111 0101011111 1101010101 1111000101 11010011101 11010011101 11010011001 01000100101 1011011111 1111011101 1101001101 1101010111 0101010101 1100010101 0111010101 1001100111 0011000101 1001010111 1100010111 1101010100 0111010101 0111000101 0110010001 1100010101 110010100101 0101011101 11010100111 1111010011 1100011101 1101110111 1110010101 1011110101 1101011101 1101001111 0111001101 0101011101 1101001001 1111010011 10110111101 10011011101 110101010011 1111010101 11010100101 1111000111 11010001001 1101110001 1111010111 0011111110 1111011100 11110010011 1101110011 1101111111 10000110111 11110010111 0111001101 1111010001 101101100100 1101001101 1100001111 1111010101 1101010111 0101011101 1001010101 1101000101 1111110100 110100101101 0111000111 1111110001 1101011111 1101111101 01110001001 0111001101 1111110111 0111010111 1001110011 0100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; she, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, there, the, are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of The Bridge: The Dance;
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- idea of the verse;
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