This is an analysis of the poem Dance To It that begins with:
Well hey Miss Go-Go won't you stop for a minute
Cause the song you dance to it got somethin' in it...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacd Xdace bbfaaCf ffdaaCe gddXgXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111001 101110011000 1010111101111 1101111 1111011001100 11110111100 1010101111111101 1111010111111 101101011110110101111 0110101010111100101010 1111110011110111110 1011111111101 11110101111111 111101101101001 101101101001 10110110100111111 1111001100 11110111110 101101111111101 11110101110011 11111111011 1111111011 111111100111111001 11101001100 1111011100 101101111111101 11110101111111 11001110111010 11110110 1111111110110 1111111111 111111111010 111111111 111111110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dance, you, to, it, i'm, not, somethin', open, your, man's, gonna, mean are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words open, do, i are repeated.
The author used the same word well at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ya, it, you are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word yeah at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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