This is an analysis of the poem Nursery Rhyme For A Twenty-First Birthday that begins with:
You cannot see the walls that divide your hand
From his or hers or mine when you think you touch it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab Xb ab Xb Xb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110111 001011111110 11010101111 110100111010 1100111111 11011101110 1101001011010 111111001110 0100101001011 10010101010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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