This is an analysis of the poem Smell that begins with:
Oh strong-ridged and deeply hollowed
nose of mine! what will you not be smelling? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaXXXcXXXcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111010 1011011010 1101011111101 110010011101 110001001000100 10010011011 0100111 1101010 01110001011 11101011101110 110110001101 1111101010011 111101111101 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, must are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines everything is repeated).
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- summary of Smell;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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