This is an analysis of the poem The Human Touch that begins with:
She made roses all the day for pretty ladies' wear,
All through the patient hours, half into the night....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaBcacaAbabdede ABaXfefebgbgXacaegXgXaBaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101110111 110101010001 100010110101 11000110001 101010110111 111010110101 101010110100 1010010110101 1110101110111 1101110001 1010101000101 111010101101 101000110111 100010110101 101010110111 101110010101 1110101110111 101010110001 1110010110101 111010110110 1000101010101 001010100101 101010110111 101011110101 1010010110001 101010100111 111011110101 101010000101 1110101111101 101011110101 111110110101 111010110101 101010101001 111110111101 1100101101010 111010100101 1111101110111 101010110001 100010110101 11000110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 678
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, of, her, to are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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