This is an analysis of the poem Dancing To Old Tunes that begins with:
There are no ties I wish to keep,
With anyone seeking to enter playgrounds....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXXa XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 01001001011 10010101011 111101010100 10100011011 001011 10101111 1110100010010011 11010001 011101 101010111001 101110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Dancing To Old Tunes;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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