Analysis of The Dance
Peggy White Simmons 1946 (Sioux Falls, SD)
Life is a gamble
One you cannot win
You take a chance every day
And the odds are very thin
Each day brings something new
And sometimes it goes right
Then one day comes
That will make day as dark as night
We can't control a thing
It's all a matter of chance
But it's all an integral part
Of simply joining the dance
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010 11101 11011001 0011101 111101 001111 1111 11111111 110101 1101011 11111001 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because so many different things have happened in my life. Spent many days wondering why things happen. I finally realized there is no reason. It's just the dance we do
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Written on May 10, 2022
Submitted by dancerwy1_1 on May 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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