This is an analysis of the poem Hands! that begins with:
Hands! Gentle Hands!
When the Field at covert stands, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbaaacccaaadddaaaeeeaaaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1011101 11111010 101100110 10111010 11101111011 1101 1110101 10111110 001000010 10101010 01111010101 1101 1111101 00111010 10111010 11101010 0100110011 1101 1010101 11111010 10101110 10101010 11111111011 11001 1010101 10100010 11101010 11101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 992
- Average number of words per stanza: 181
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; hands, him, them, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, that's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hands, them are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hands connects the lines.
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