This is an analysis of the poem Not Someone Wanted Permanently that begins with:
Stranger hands have touched you.
In places to me you keep off limits....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDCB ABCDCB dbdXXXX deea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 0100111110 11100111 101 1111101110 11100001000 101111 0100111110 11100111 101 1111101110 11100001000 111010101 11110 101 01 111011 11010011010 1111101000 111110 001010 11101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word stranger at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word seriousness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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