This is an analysis of the poem Touch that begins with:
The house of the body
is a stately manor...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd efbgghi gagidh Xcigifie bhiahX gXXfegXigf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,6,8,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010 001010 10110 100010 1 1010001 0110 010110 1101010 100011 110 110010 11110 11010 101010 110 10101 0111001 0101 01110 001 01010 010 001 1101 0110 0101 10111 010 10101 11 100110010 10010101 01 10011 00101110 00101 01010 10110 01010000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Touch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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