This is an analysis of the poem That Word That Smells that begins with:
I've found a reason not to rhyme.
Or open a door to flowing prose....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXcc dAXdbcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010101 110010101 1011111001001 10100101 1110010001 011111101 110111 11010101 10100001101 100101010001 01010101011 0 11 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word something is repeated.
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- summary of That Word That Smells;
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- history of its creation;
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