This is an analysis of the poem Jeanne-Marie's Hands that begins with:
Jeanne-Marie has strong hands; dark hands tanned by the summer,
pale hands like dead hands. Are they the hands of Donna Juana? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bccX cXXc Xcccc ddec XXeX fXfc bfXbgcg gXgf fcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,4,4,4,7,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111111010 11111110101010 011110110 1011010010 1110010100100 1111010011010101 11101110010 1111010101010100 000110100011011011 111010001 0010100101010 1110110 1111100010000 1101010100100100110 111101100 10110101001 11110101001010011 11101001 10101001111 10110100101 01110100 1110011111011 101000101101100 10110010111101 1111000110100 1111111010 11101111000 110011011010 01001101101001 1110100111010 011001010111 101000100101 100010111100 11001001100 11100111101001 1011000110101010 101111111 1111010110 1101011 1101110 101101 01111101 01111101 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hands, have, they, which, of, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words have, these, they are repeated.
The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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