This is an analysis of the poem Her Beautiful Hands that begins with:
Your hands- they are strangely fair!
O Fair- for the jewels that sparkle there,- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd ddeebbdd ffgghXgg hhXXccdd Xddcceedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111101 1110101101 110100001 110010111 111100101 101111101 11101001001 11001001001 1001001001 1111001001 0111011001 1001001001 0011101001 11001101001 11001011101 11001111001 110100111 01100111111 110111111 100111101 1111110101 111011001011 1110100111 1001011001 111100101 111111111 1101011001 11111101101 10111101 10101101 110101101 1111011001 100111001 1111001001 11110011101 1001001011 110111101 110100101 1101100101 1001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; fair, i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hands is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hands at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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