This is an analysis of the poem The Dance that begins with:
Heel and toe, heel and toe,
That is the song we sing;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcC dadacC efefcc agagXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 100111 101101101 1011011 1011011111 000110101 101101 101111 100101101 101101 1111001011 000110101 101101 101101 1011011001 1001011 1101001001 110110101 101101 100101 111111101 1101001 100110110 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, back, to, her are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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