Analysis of The Touches Of Her Hand
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
The touches of her hands are like the fall
Of velvet snowflakes; like the touch of down
The peach just brushes 'gainst the garden wall;
The flossy fondlings of the thistle-wisp
Caught in the crinkle of a leaf of brown
The blighting frost hath turned from green to crisp.
Soft as the falling of the dusk at night,
The touches of her hands, and the delight--
The touches of her hands!
The touches of her hands are like the dew
That falls so softly down no one e'er knew
The touch thereof save lovers like to one
Astray in lights where ranged Endymion.
O rarely soft, the touches of her hands,
As drowsy zephyrs in enchanted lands;
Or pulse of dying fay; or fairy sighs;
Or--in between the midnight and the dawn,
When long unrest and tears and fears are gone--
Sleep, smoothing down the lids of weary eyes.
Scheme | ABACBC DDEFFXB EEGHHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011101 110110111 0111010101 01110101 100110111 011111111 1101010111 0101010001 010101 0101011101 11110111101 011110111 0101111 1101010101 1101000101 1111011101 100101001 1101010111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 793 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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