This is an analysis of the poem What Is It That You Want Touched? that begins with:
What is it in your mind I haven't made the time,
To touch....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBCD ABBCD EBBEBbb BCDXbEBCDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100011110101 01 1011111 1110010 0101 100011110101 01 1011111 1110010 0101 1001111 100111111 100111111 1001111 100111111 1001111111 1001111 1011111 1110010 0101 1001111111 1001111 1011111 1110010 0101 1001111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; what, it, that, you, want, touched, so, much are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines much is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word see at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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