This is an analysis of the poem My Eyes Were On Your Tomatoes that begins with:
I now am missing kissing.
And that's since I've gotten older......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDECB ccfgXXf Xhcfdi X hf ABCDECB gXfd j X dXcj XgX Xkdk X Xie XXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,6,1,2,7,4,1,1,4,3,4,1,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 11111010 010100 010010111 1001010 1010101 1101101010 111101 11111101 011110111 111101 1100 1 11100 11101100 010101 101001 11011010 10101 100 1111011 011 111111001 1111010 11111010 010100 010010111 1001010 1010101 1101101010 10101001 010001011 110110 0101111 1111 111101 111010 11011 1101 111 1 10111 1011101 11001 1110110 11010110 0111 111 1111 010 11011010 111110111 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, no are repeated.
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- summary of My Eyes Were On Your Tomatoes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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