This is an analysis of the poem Touch-And-Go that begins with:

Sing praise for statuary:
For those anchored attitudes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcXbc XdeXXXeb bXadeecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 1110101 111111 110111011 11111 0101001 101101 0001001 110101 110111 110101 11110111 1111101 1100111 1101011 10100 1110101 0010101 11101101 111101 01111 1101101 11011 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; go is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Touch-And-Go;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Sylvia Plath