This is an analysis of the poem Touched In Their Private And Sacred Places that begins with:
There has to be something somewhere pleasant,
Besides the deluge today of unpleasant news....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX Xbbbc Xbcb XadXa Xdbdb XbcbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101110 010100100101 111100111 101111010101 1110001101001 1110010100101 111010110 1101100010 010011110001 011010111011 1110110001110 101010011100 11011011010 1010001011000110101 10111011001000100 1111001010 0010111101 1010011011100100 1001011010 00100100100 11001010101 11110101 011010011010000010101 11001011011 101010100101 10100010 00010001101 01111010 101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, as, of are repeated.
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- summary of Touched In Their Private And Sacred Places;
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- idea of the verse;
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