This is an analysis of the poem With The Hands On It Moving Backward that begins with:
Opportunities may have already slipped,
Through your hands....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdd X aaXXdeafebfaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100110101 111 01010011111 011000111010 110 111010101001 11101001011 11101000101 110 1101110 001101010 111111 1111100100 0110110100 011 11011101010111100 1101010101101001 001001010111101 1011 01110011010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
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