This is an analysis of Dancers, The by Ina D. Coolbrith.
They were so light, the little dancing feet,
The little feet, such little dancing feet!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabcXXXaaAA AdedXcXXXaa acbdXebbfXXffaAAA
- Stanza lengths: 12,11,17,
- Metre: 1011010101 0101110101 111111 1101011101 011101 101100 101111 1011010101 110101 110100101001 101101101 010101 010101 1101000011 1100101 111101 0101010100 1001111111 1100101 11101001 001100 11001011101 110101 1111010101 0101011011 11101 001101 0101 110100 011111 110101 100111 101100 101100 101101 111111101 0101 010101 101101101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
snow, little, feet, lighter, than, flower, as
Anaphora
lighter, the, and, dancing
Epiphora
feet, stay
