This is an analysis of the poem Touch that begins with:
Have you ever tried meditation?
Struggling hard to concentrate,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcbcdXaE fgfcXgdXeXE bXbhfageibE bbgh aiebXb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,11,4,6,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 10010101 1101111 10111110 11111101 10010011001 1010101101 0101010 10111 10110 111010 10101001 11111010 1111000110 101101101 1100111101 11000111001 11101001 0111010100 101010100 10110 1011110001 111010101 001111101 101010011 1110011010 0101110 100111 010100100 0100110101 1101100 10110 101111 1001000101 0110010 1111 1101011 11001 01010 110101 10100100 10101 110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; skin, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word this at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Touch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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