This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Xvi: Hands Cling To Eyes that begins with:

Hands cling to hands and eyes linger
on eyes: thus begins the record of our...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXcdCEXfXcXgbcCEdhefCEcccXXdhggCE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110 1110100101 1 00011101 0110100001 111101010 11100100 010 01011110 10101 11001010 1111 0101111 1101111 000101010 1001011001 11111010 1111010 01011110 10101 110001001 1101001001 110101110 001001 01011110 10101 11111011 00010101111 1100111 011 000111111 1 1111010 011010001 01 01011110 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 211
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; some, and, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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