This is an analysis of the poem Only A Dancing Girl that begins with:
Only a dancing girl,
With an unromantic style,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabb cdcddee dfdffgg edXddXh hdhddiiXfffffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 0110001 0111011 0101001 0100101 0100001 111101 10010001 1101001 11100101 110001 111101 100111 0101001 110101 11101001 001001001 001001001 011101 1111001 010111 110111 110101 01010010 1101110 00110101 1010101 1101010 1010101 111101 11011010 101111 1110111 1111101 0011101 110111 1010101 1100101 0011101 010101 0010101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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; with, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases i, why connect the lines.
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