This is an analysis of the poem The Matador of Metaphor that begins with:

The grapefruit in the Florida orchard
has ripened into a globe in Hartford...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXccddeffeggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110010010 1100001010 11011101 011011111 010100011 011100001 10101001 00101111 0001100101 101010010 101100010 0010101010 1000010110 001011111 11111110100 11100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 572
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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