This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Plantain-Gatherers that begins with:
We gather and gather the plantains;
Come gather them anyhow....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXAX AbAb AcAc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110010 1100101 110110010 1111101 110110010 1101111 110110010 1101111 110110010 0101111 110110010 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; gather, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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