This is an analysis of The Lost Dancer by Jean Toomer.
Spatial depths of being survive
The birth to death recurrences…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbaXXbXXX
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 10101001 01011000 01101101 01000101 01010101 01011111 01010001 01010101 01010101 010100010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
of, sand
Anaphora
the
