This is an analysis of the poem The Children Dancing that begins with:

Away, sad thoughts, and teasing
Perplexities, away! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababacXcacadadadebebebafafafghghgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110 100001 1101110 100111 1101110 110011 0101010 101101 1111100 100111 11011010 110001 1111010 110111 1101110 010101 1101010 010001 1101110 010101 1101010 111101 0111110 1101001 10110010 110011 1011010 010111 0101010 110111 1101010 010101 10111010 110101 11001110 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1030
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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  • central theme;
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