Analysis of To a Dancer
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Intoxicatingly
Her eyes across the footlights gleam,
(The wine of love, the wine of dream)
Her eyes, that gleam for me!
The eyes of all that see
Draw to her glances, stealing fire
From her desire that leaps to my desire;
Her eyes that gleam for me!
Subtly, deliciously,
A quickening fire within me, beat
The rhythms of her poising feet;
Her feet that poise to me!
Her body's melody,
In silent waves of wandering sound,
Thrills to the sense of all around,
Yet thrills alone for me!
And oh, intoxicatingly,
When, at the magic moment's close,
She dies into the rapture of repose,
Her eyes that gleam for me!
Scheme | abbC cddC aeec cffc axxC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 1 0101011 01110111 011111 011111 110101010 100101111010 011111 1000100 0100100111 0101011 011111 010100 010111001 11011101 110111 011 11010101 1101010101 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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