Poem Analysis of Touching by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Touching that begins with:

Touching are words expressed,
When hearts are filled with such emptiness....

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Rhyme scheme: ab ab ca XXcdXccdbaa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,11,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101101 111101100 1001111 1101110111 101010100 1011111 1101111101 11011 0011011 1111 11010010 101 01 10010 11100111 11
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
Average number of words per stanza: 16
Amount of lines: 16
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; touching is repeated.
The author used the same word touching at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Touching by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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