This is an analysis of the poem Dancing Through Obstacles that begins with:
Even with a giving of a support aborted.
And arrows shot from bows a lot, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacdXef adX aghdheb XaX i cgfaiX faX bXdabajdjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,7,3,1,6,3,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000100001010 11010101 001010 000100100110 1110100111 10101100 111000010 10101011101 001001010 11110101 1011 10101101 1111010 111011101 00100010110100101 101010 1111010111 1010000101 11101110101 1 010011111 00101001110 111101111 101011110 11101111 1011010001010 00101010 1011001 1111111010 1111 10101010 0111001 11110010100 1101010010 00100101 101010100 0110111001 0011101 00101110001 1101000101100 101001 001010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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