This is an analysis of the poem Dancers, The that begins with:
They were so light, the little dancing feet,
The little feet, such little dancing feet! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcXXXaaAA AdedXcXXXaa acbdXebbfXXffaAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010101 0101110101 111111 1101011101 011101 101100 101111 1011010101 110101 110100101001 101101101 010101 010101 1101000011 1100101 111101 0101010100 1001111111 1100101 11101001 001100 11001011101 110101 1111010101 0101011011 11101 001101 0101 110100 011111 110101 100111 101100 101100 101101 111111101 0101 010101 101101101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; snow, little, feet, lighter, than, flower, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words lighter, the, and, dancing are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines feet, stay are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word feet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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