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
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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Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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