This is an analysis of the poem Our Hands Have Met that begins with:
Our hands have met, our lips have met
Our souls - who knows when the wind blows... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaab cXXcb daddb eeeeX aXaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11111011 11111101 01101101 01111101 11110111 11011111 1100011100 11111101 11011101 10111111 11110101 01111101 11011111 11111101 11010101 11010110 11010101 11111111 11010110 11011111 11111111 11111111 01011101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word our is repeated.
The author used the same word wilt at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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