This is an analysis of the poem Your Hand that begins with:
Your hand full of hours, you came to me – and I said:
‘Your hair is not brown.’...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXc adXdbcXXdXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101111 11011 110010 1001001 0110011 110111111011 11011001001 1111001 1111001111 1111011 11011001 11101 11011001011 111110101001 111011001101 1111111 011000111011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, i are repeated.
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- summary of Your Hand;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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