This is an analysis of the poem Your Hands that begins with:
When your hands leap
towards mine, love,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaXcXcdebccXdebffghXdfifgijhjeifbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0111 1111101 1011 1111100 11110 10101 1110 100110 110 11011 1101 1011 1001101 10001 1111 11111 1111 0011 1111 111001 00011 1011010 01001 01001 11110 10011 101001 011111 10010 11101 010110 11010 01111 1111 10101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words over, a are repeated.
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