This is an analysis of the poem The Foul Smell Left To Leave that begins with:
So many today seem unable to stay,
Away......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdedfcg ddfg bbhgij kX jcj bfXcd fX bXjkXieXXhabXjbjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,4,6,2,3,5,2,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101001 01 0111 101110 1101000101 11011011 0100101 1100101 1011101 111 01010100 0100 11011 0111101 1011000 01 10111110 100101000 1011010111 101011 1100011011 110001 101111 11101111 100110100 111111111 1111110 011101 110011101 1100 1001110 111 10110111 0 0100 011111111 101011001 10 1101 1100101010 10101110001 101111111 111110 111111 00111001110 1110111 101 1011101001 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, this are repeated.
The author used the same word perhaps at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Foul Smell Left To Leave;
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