This is an analysis of the poem Palm that begins with:
Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings. That faces upward...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcaXcXcXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100001111101 1011011010 10010 011001110 0101 111010110 101 11011 10001001 1100101 1011110 00011 10101010 100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Palm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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