This is an analysis of the poem This Hand Has Touched that begins with:
This golden figurine- oh dear, will she ceaselessly crumble away,
In the night, in the sun, in the rain in the arms of another man? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdeceec eXebc XXcdXbdXdX XXaab X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,10,5,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010111011001001 00100100100100101 010111010110111 01111101011 0010100100110 0111010101 0111 01 0101101010101 1110001010101 001010101 1110111 11001000111 1011101101 0101110110111 1001 1111010101 1100011101 1101001011 1111101 010101101 110011011 010101 01011001100 1001100100100111 11011101010111011 11100101001 1110111111 1011110111 1010111100101 101111101 010001010111000110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, hand, this, within, go are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, go are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hand at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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