This is an analysis of Love For A Hand by Karl Shapiro.
Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white,
And soon down ladders of reflected light…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcXb ddcXdX aaaeea dddffd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1111010101 1111000101 01010101000 1101110101 11010100101 1111010100 1101110101 01001110101 0101010111 1101010001 100110111 00101000111 0111110101 1101011111 01010110101 0101010101 0101000101 0101000101 1001110101 1001011101 1101010101 11110010101 11010101111 0100010110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
it, he
Anaphora
and
