Analysis of By Human Hands
Román Ortega-Cowan 1935 (Habana)
Though made of wood
And tempered steel
My soul and voice
By God were made.
From strings I talk
So sweet my tones
In notes they float
like in a dream.
Of wood I’m made
By human hands
They carved my form
with love and art.
And human hands
then make me sing.
Their fingers tune
my voice of spring.
Of wood I’m made
To music make
My name is Viola,
De Gamba, I say!
Scheme | xxxa xxxx Abxx bcxc Axxx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (55%) Etheree (30%) Quatrain (20%) |
Metre | 1111 0101 1101 1101 1111 1111 0111 1001 1111 1101 1111 1101 0101 1111 1101 1111 1111 1101 111010 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 347 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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