This is an analysis of the poem The Touch that begins with:
For months my hand was sealed off
in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXbaacX dccebaaX XfXXbXegbaebbgX aabde fcbgbahhbeii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,15,5,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 00111011101110 0100111 110111101 11111011 10110110 1011011 0111111010 1111110 01101 01110 11100010 1101010111 01111101 1110010 0111111010 1011000 1100100 110101110 11001 1101 01110 011001101 0110101011 110110 110110 110101110 111011101 110110 1100111011 11000111110 11110101 0100 1111101 01011 00101010 11001111 11001100 1111 1101101011 11100 010101 1101 11001010010 110011100100 1101010 11001 10010100010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, they are repeated.
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- summary of The Touch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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