This is an analysis of the poem Cruelty And Love that begins with:
What large, dark hands are those at the window
Lifted, grasping in the yellow light ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa abab cdeeeecddd ffccgheeeghXg hhcc hhiiiih hjhhjh kkhhccccbbkakXclcclc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,10,13,4,7,6,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111010 101000101 110110101 11101 1100111111 001110101 10010101 110101 010101 1010010 01111101 11010101 110101011 010011101 110100111 1101001110 101110010 1101010010 00010101 100100101 111010111 11010101 01110101 11010101 01111101 01110101 0101010101 010011101 110111111 01110101 00010101 110101010 11110010 11111111 10101001001 01010101 11010101 110110101 1001000110 00110101 01010100 101101001 110011111 1111001001 11110101 1100100101 11110001 1111101 110110111011 1001101101 01100111001 0011100111101 11010110101 11011101001 001011101101 100111011001 01011011101 1010110010101 001011111001 11111100111 1101111101 11011011101 1101011101 1101101111 011101101001 01110111101 01101011111 01111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, her, his, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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