This is an analysis of the poem Smelling Salts that begins with:
Why do the people with the least intelligence,
Get the most attention? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXd daXefX XafXa X ghgha X aXciajic X ccjgghdg XXagec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,1,5,1,8,1,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100010100 101010 000110 000 111001001 110100 111100 11100 1111 100100101010 1110101011 111010010 1 10110 1011 1101101 00010010010100 11010101 11 111101110 100100111011 110 10100110100 1110 010010 010001001010 110101 1010001010 1111010100100 1 111111010 1111101101 11111001100 011 010 1 1001 111 110 011010101111011 110110111 1001 101 111 1111010010001 001000
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Smelling Salts;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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