This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet In Search Of An Author that begins with:

Nude bodies like peeled logs
sometimes give off a sweetest...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xab cd bXa cdXaXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 110111 0111010 101110 10010111 100100 10101110 1001010 01010100 1010010011 100110100 11100110 10110101 11101000110 0110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, odor are repeated.

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