This is an analysis of the poem The Valse that begins with:
When to sweet music my lady is dancing
My heart to mild frenzy her beauty inspires....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac adadaeae fgfgahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110010 11011001001 00111011010 111111010010 11011010110 1101101001 10111010110 1001001011 1111110110 01011001011 10110111110 11001011111 1101001110 1011011101 11010111110 1101001101 11010010110 01001011001 11111110110 01111011111 11010010110 11111111001 11011011010 11001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, for, and, dance are repeated.
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- summary of The Valse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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