Analysis of That Smell
That smell you know
But can not place
It’s from your youth
A certain space
That smell you know
Is so familiar
Musty and cold
Like an old cellar
That smell you know
Brings you back
Crawling and exploring
But not the attic
Ahhh, now you know
A memory with a torch
That smell you remember
Playing under the porch
| Scheme | Abxb Acxc Axxx adcd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 1111 1111 1111 0101 1111 11010 1001 11110 1111 111 100010 11010 1111 0100101 111010 101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 310 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted by BlancoBilly on March 16, 2021
Modified by BlancoBilly on March 16, 2021
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