This is an analysis of Dear Hands by James Whitcomb Riley.
The touches of her hands are like the fall
Of velvet snowflakes; like the touch of down…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacbc ddeffbXXeeebbe
- Stanza lengths: 6,14,
- Metre: 0100011101 0101110101 0111010101 0101000101 100100101 0101110101 1101000111 0100011001 010001 0100011101 11110111101 0111110101 010111100 1101010001 1101000101 1101011101 1001011101 1101111111 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
the, or
