This is an analysis of the poem Manicured Hands that begins with:
They wish limits to be placed on feasting.
Although indebted to feeding upon greed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX bccc ddcXXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001110 11010010011 00110 1100 11001111 110111110 10110111010 101111001 1100010111101 11010001110101 111001110010 110 11101110 0110111101 011110 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; on, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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