This is an analysis of the poem Buckdancer’s Choice that begins with:

So I would hear out those lungs,
The air split into nine levels, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab bcd Xde aeX cff ghh dih gbi eXf aah Xead
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 01100110 11010010 001001110 10011001 0101010011 0011001 10111010 10101111 0100101 00101110 110010010 111101 0101011 0110111 1101011 11111001 001001101 10101010011 110110110 0100101 1111001 110010110 01101001 1101010001 01011011 10110011 11101111 0111001011 001101101 11011010 11010010 10100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Buckdancer’s Choice;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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