This is an analysis of The Dancer by Edmund Waller.
Behold the brand of beauty tossed!
See how the motion does dilate the flame!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efgfegeg
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 01010101 1101010101 01010111 110001 1001101 01110111 1001 110111 110010101 0101010101 01010111 100101 00111101 11010111 1011 10010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
