This is an analysis of the poem Smoke And Steel that begins with:
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one,
Smoke of the leaves in autumn another....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde XfagbhiX bbhd Xjjjk lah aaj fcgacckd gfjjmmj nagai acofaa jjcac acj ggXjicfo blia XXojig iccXjajjb XXXhp fij jcjf hebaqejniXf qjjee gfX kajjjjdpkckX aea gla eajghXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,4,5,3,3,8,7,5,6,5,3,8,4,6,9,5,3,4,11,5,3,12,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100101 1001010010 1001111010110 11110010011 1110011001 0011111001 0011111001 101 11 1110 100100111010 100101111 1010111111 10110010 11101111110 111010110 11111101 100111101 11011110 1100100110 11111110 1111101 1110101 1110101 0111010101 100101111 100101010 111011110 100111 11010 1001 10101101 010110100101 00010111 011100011 011101 1010100 11101100 00101111 0011100110 0110011 111111 00101010 01010010 1101001101001 010010100111111 111101001 10101111 1101011111101 101010010101010 01010010101001 1111001110 1101001 101110111101 00101101010 011111 100111001 1110101111101 11100101 0101 001001 010111 11100101 110010001101001 111101100111101101101110110 1011 01010100111111111111101010010 1111101 10111110010001010101001011 10101110101101001101001 100011100101011100011011011010 1010111101110011111 100011111101011110101000101011 11010111011111010101001110 1111 1110010101 1010011101 110111011 111 010101 11111 111001011 11110000101 1111001110 101010011010 11000101001010 1110111011010 101011110101 11111111010 100111110100000101000010010 1101110100001000011011 1110101111111011111001100 10100111001101 110100111 11101 110100001 001010111 0011111 0010101010110 101011001010010 111111101 0101011 1010111 10001010 0100100111 10111101 010011101011 01011010 101110 1111101 10010010101 11110010101 10111101 1111101101010 1010100100110110011101 10111001110110101110111111101 11001101001010101 100111010110111001011 101110010101101100100 01001110010110110011 1111010100111010 101001111101010101111 101100100101100101011001011010 11001110010100110011001101 1110010100010101011111111010101 101001000010100101011001001 111010111101111 1001011001111101001011 1000110011011011100 1111 11110 1111111 11100101 01001001 1111110101 01011111 110110111 1110101 010111111 1011101011 1110100 1001010101 010100111 0110100101 011101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 7262
- Average number of words per stanza: 1375
- Amount of lines: 171
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; smoke, in, of, they, wind, and, sing, gang, ran, runs, steel, by, on, we, all, steve, one, ', slag, fire, waiting are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words smoke, if, deep, sing, you, this, the, in, and, steel, their, one, they, sleeps are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shadow, works, steel, ' are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dancing connects the lines.
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- summary of Smoke And Steel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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