Analysis of Hands



Touching
Fondling Folding
Giving Taking Molding
Making Braking Shaking Scolding
Soothing Smoothing Stroking Healing Holding:
Hands


Scheme AAAAAB
Poetic Form
Metre 10 10010 101010 10101010 1010101010 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 125
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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