This is an analysis of the poem The Honey Bear that begins with:

Billie Holiday was on the radio
I was standing in the kitchen...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdefcbgfcaXgecacfXccbafdceb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101110101 11100010 10110100 11101001 110101 11010010 1011110 0101011 11111001 101010 10100110 10101 0110110 010101 1001010 10100110 11001 01011010 101101010 011001010 010101010 0101000011 10101 1011011 11110101 01110 0010001 011110111 0100110110 010101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 886
  • Average number of words per stanza: 161
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • summary of The Honey Bear;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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