This is an analysis of the poem Percival Sharp that begins with:
Observe the clasped hands!
Are they hands of farewell or greeting,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdefdcXaaXeeacgdXbcfXgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 111011110 111111111 101010101 010101110000 11000101 010101001 1110 111101 1010101000010 10100111101 11100110 11010101001 1001011101001 1100110100100 0100001010100 001001010001010 110111101 11011110 1101011110110 1111011001000 101011 110101011100 0011111011100100 001101111111 11100100110 111110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1120
- Average number of words per stanza: 197
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hands, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words others, and, it are repeated.
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