This is an analysis of Touch by Meena Kandasamy.

Have you ever tried meditation?
Struggling hard to concentrate,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXcbcdXaE fgfcXgdXeXE bXbhfageibE bbgh aiebXb X
  • Stanza lengths: 10,11,11,4,6,1,
  • Metre: 111011010 10010101 1101111 10111110 11111101 10010011001 1010101101 0101010 10111 10110 111010 10101001 11111010 1111000110 101101101 1100111101 11000111001 11101001 0111010100 101010100 10110 1011110001 111010101 001111101 101010011 1110011010 0101110 100111 010100100 0100110101 1101100 10110 101111 1001000101 0110010 1111 1101011 11001 01010 110101 10100100 10101 110010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 43

Repeated words/phrases

skin, you

Anaphora

you

Anadiplosis

you