This is an analysis of the poem To A Child Dancing In The Wind that begins with:
DANCE there upon the shore;
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 111101 111101 110111 101111 1011111 011011 111111 1011001 110101 111101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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