This is an analysis of the poem Rondeau At The Train Stop that begins with:
It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay
drifting toward me on the T stop, the train...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbc abcXda dXcba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101001001 10011101101 100010101011 10010100011 01010101011 0010100101 01010111011 01111101 101111110 1000001011 01101010101 110011101 0101010101001 01101010010011 010001010101 1010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; that is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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