This is an analysis of the poem The After-Dinner Smoke that begins with:
THROUGH the smoke clouds that I blow
I can see the Long Ago...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccb ddXeaafe eeegddbg hhfiaaci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1110101 10101011 1110101 1010101 1010101 111101110 0011101 1110101 10011111 11101011 11010011 1111101 1011101 0101010 1011101 1011101 1011101 01101010 1110101 1110111 1110101 00101110 0011001 1110001 11010001 11101010 1110111 1011101 1010101 1101110 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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