This is an analysis of the poem The Dance Of The Eunuchs that begins with:

It was hot, so hot, before the eunuchs came
To dance, wide skirts going round and round, cymbals ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXcabXcdXaXXXbXcd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111010101 01111011110 10101101010 100101001000 11101110111 11111111101 011111000111 01110111110 01111010110 10101110111 11111011101 111100101001 01011111110 100100110100 00100100101 10111010111 101011100010 01101101110 1101111010 10101001011 0100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 520
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jingling, they, their, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word were is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jingling connects the lines.

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

  • summary of The Dance Of The Eunuchs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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