This is an analysis of Hands And Lips by Radclyffe Hall.

Give me your hands to hold,
For the night and the wind are cold,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb cccc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 111101 10110111 101110111 1111101 111101 10100111 101110100 1111101 111111 10110101 10110110 01111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

let