This is an analysis of the poem The Touches Of Her Hand that begins with:

The touches of her hands are like the fall
Of velvet snowflakes; like the touch of down... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacbc ddeffbXXeeebbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100011101 0101110101 0111010101 0101000101 100100101 0101110101 1101000111 0100011001 010001 0100011101 11110111101 0111110101 010111100 1101010001 1101000101 1101011101 1001011101 1101111111 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or are repeated.

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