This is an analysis of the poem “the Rank Stench Of Those Bodies Haunts Me Still” that begins with:
The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still
And I remember things I'd best forget....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefeXfgXhcXdabhdafbcbXhXeiedfdhieXeebgbcbhbXciXcaXcbhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110110111 1101011101 1111001101 110010010101 1101111101 11001010101 01110011101 11010111001 01110101001 1101110101 0101110101 1101110001 0101011111 1111010001 0110011101 1001110101 1101011001 1011010101 0101010101 1011110001 1111010101 0111110001 0111111111 11111101010 1111011101 1111011111 1101010111 1101011111 1001010001 1001011111 1101000101 1111011101 1111011111 1111011111 1111010111 1111010101 0101010111 10010100101 1101010111 11110011101 11110100001 1011011011 1100010101 11010100101 1101111101 10110101001 10011101010 1101110111 1101010101 0111001101 1101111011 110111 1111 0011010111 0110011111 1111010101 0101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2546
- Average number of words per stanza: 466
- Amount of lines: 57
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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