This is an analysis of the poem White Hands that begins with:

FOR the second time in a year this lady with the white hands is brought to the west room second floor of a famous sanatorium.
Her husband is a...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101001010001101001110100101000 010001010100011001101011011010100100101010101 101110110101100101010011100010010101011101 10101010010010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 498
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 124 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 22
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, hands, in are repeated.

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