Analysis of Hands
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
The little hands too soft and white
To have known more laborious hours
Than those which die upon a night
Of kindling wine and fading flowers;
The little hands that I have kissed,
Finger by finger, to the tips,
And delicately about each wrist
Have set a bracelet with my lips;
Dear soft white little morbid hands,
Mine all one night, with what delight
Shall I recall in other lands,
Dear hands, that you were mine one night!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EAEA |
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Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
Metre | 01011101 1111010010 11110101 110101010 01011111 10110101 010000111 11010111 11110101 11111101 1110101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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