This is an analysis of the poem The Songs Of The Dead Men To The Three Dancers that begins with:
I. TO DESIRE
(Here a dancer enters and dances.)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdefghiiijikihXecifalkmjXefhlN obdomjoppioqXXmijabXmpldbXabcdlncofn qbcfqeijcoajXqllnjbbdfnqXXaXqcgemcXaomcnqN
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,36,42,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010 101010110 1011010101000 110101100 110010110101000 11011010010 11110001 110001001 0010010011000100 101101100110 11100111101 101001100100 1011001010000111 101001100100 11110001 011001101 10100110100110 101011001010 111110011110 0100100111011 1111111111111 111110111011 10011101011110010 101101 1110110011 11001001 111111101101001 10110101100 0010110011 01011001 11100111100100 10110110111 01011 101 0101010110 1010010110010000100 1101001 011011001 0010110010110011 110001011 11110110 10101000101100101 1000101101 11011111 001001101110011100 011110 1010111010 1101100101000101 10001001 00101110001 001001001001001001 10111111 01000110100 11001011101100 110111 11001001 10100110100100 10010110011 1001001 11101000100100 1010111110010 101111111 1010010011101100 1001111 110110010 110001001011101100 1001001 111011111 010111 10100 011010110 11011001100100100 1101 100100 10111001100101101 1011 1011101 110111011010010 10001 100100 100110111100101111 1011 100100 1001110110010010 110101 111100 1011100110101111 1011111 100101 100011001100100 100110010 110111 1011100110010110 101011 100100 10111001101101 10010001 100100 100111001100111 1001111 110100 1001110110010010 10001 100100 1111100110010011 01001 111111 11011111010010110 101101 100100 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1522
- Average number of words per stanza: 284
- Amount of lines: 111
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, ah, and, us, your, to are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word out at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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