This is an analysis of the poem Smoke that begins with:
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke?
It was. The city was vanishing before noon...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddbef cXfg XeXa eafX XdXf cbeh iXXf gihe efXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001101 010101100011 1101001111101 0110111111 010010110101 11010011011 11111101101 001011100101 111100111 01111010111 111100011011 001100010000100 01011100101010 11101111011 11011111010 010101101001 11000101011 00110110111 111011110101 101010111111 111000101101 10110111011 110101011001 11101111010 01110011011 010110110101 101011101111 010111010101 01011011110 101101111011 1110001101010 1111101110101 0101011111100 101110101010011 10010110100 011101010101 01110101101 01001110111 1001110111101 10111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Smoke;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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