This is an analysis of the poem The Hand That Signed The Paper that begins with:
The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101010 11010101 10010111010 11100101 01011001010 01011101 01011111010 111101 01110101010 11011101 10011101010 110101 01110111110 01011101 01110101110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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