Analysis of Basket Dance
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Dance!
Dance!
The priest is yellow with sunflower meal,
He is yellow with corn-meal,
He is yellow as the sun.
Dance!
Dance!
His little bells are ringing,
The bells tinkle like sunlight,
The sun is rising.
Dance!
Dance!
Perhaps I will throw you a basket,
Perhaps I will throw you my heart.
Lift the baskets, dancing,
Lower the baskets, dancing,
We have raised fruits,
Now we dance.
Our shadows are long,
The sunlight is bright between our shadows.
Do you want my basket?
Catch it!
Catch it!
But you cannot catch me,
I am more difficult.
Scheme | AAbbxAAcxcAAdx ccxaxxdEExx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
Metre | 1 1 011101101 1110111 1110101 1 1 1101110 011011 01110 1 1 011111010 01111111 101010 1001010 1111 111 10111 011101101 111110 11 11 111011 111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 11 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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