This is an analysis of Rondeau At The Train Stop by Erin Belieu.
It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay
drifting toward me on the T stop, the train…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbc abcXda dXcba
- Stanza lengths: 5,6,5,
- Metre: 010101001001 10011101101 100010101011 10010100011 01010101011 0010100101 01010111011 01111101 101111110 1000001011 01101010101 110011101 0101010101001 01101010010011 010001010101 1010101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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