This is an analysis of the poem Hold Your Mad Hands that begins with:
Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain
Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacccdeecddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111110111 10101010101 1101110101 10010010101 1111111101 1111010101 11001010101 1101001111 1111011101 0101110101 01010101101 100011000101 1101100111 11001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and are repeated.
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- summary of Hold Your Mad Hands;
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- history of its creation;
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