This is an analysis of the poem Banana Bread-Baked And Buttered that begins with:
I recently discovered,
I was quick banana fed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCA XdX aeeddXAABCAaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100010 1110101 10110100 10011 101010101 11001000101 1111101 0101110101 1010011 1111101 1100010100 1111110 001010 1100010 1110101 10110100 10011 101010101 1110 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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