This is an analysis of Smoking by Elton Glaser.
I like the cool and heft of it, dull metal on the palm,
And the click, the hiss, the spark fuming into flame,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 11011100110101 101010110001 1101001110011101 101010100101101 1110101110101 011010010101 11011011111 0011011110001 1011001111011 0111000101001 10100101001101100 10101001000111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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