This is an analysis of the poem Spanish Dancer that begins with:
As in one's hand a lighted match blinds you before
it comes aflame and sends out brilliant flickering...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbc X dXXba aXbacXdb Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,5,8,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101011101 010111110100 1010011010100 10001010101010 110110101 110001010101 0011110101 1010011010100 01010001010 10000101001101 1001000111010 110101000100 1100111101 0101001010110 101110101010 101000101110 11110000111 111101100111 11101001010 0101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, it, and, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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