This is an analysis of the poem Smeared With Mud And Smelling Of Fried Chicken that begins with:

No one clearly appearing from out of the 'blue'...
Smeared with mud and smelling of fried chicken, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001001001 1011100110 1011100 011001001 1011111 01101001100110 110100111010010 11110010101010 1000101010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, they are repeated.

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  • summary of Smeared With Mud And Smelling Of Fried Chicken;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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