This is an analysis of the poem Standing Or Dancing Under Spotlight that begins with:
Why aren't you dancing under the spotlight?
Why not dazzle the audience, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb cXX d daX a XX d deXf XabXeX a ggX Xf fXX h hccdaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,1,3,1,2,1,4,6,1,3,2,3,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010011 11100100 0110110 1110101 11111100 111101000101 1 110101 110111 11001010 101100100 111 01000111101 1 110110100 100101 10110101011 110111101 111100001 111101111 01110 100110110 11011110101 111101110001000 1101011 110 101101011110 11101 1 111 110111100 10101110 1011 01010010111 11 0101001001100 1 1101011 101101011 001010111 111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, i, yeah are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase yeah connects the lines.
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