This is an analysis of Talk by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Tobacco smoke drifts up to the dim ceiling
From half a dozen pipes and cigarettes,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc bdXddd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 01111100110 0101011101 10010101110 1101111101 0101011001 11110101010 100101111100 11110101110 11011101110 0111011101 0101010010100 10111100111 1011111101 0111010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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