This is an analysis of This Living Hand by John Keats.

This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 0101111100 0101010001 1001010001 1111111101 1111111101 1011111101 1101011100 110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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