This is an analysis of the poem Talking To A Handful Of Bananas that begins with:
Choosing to dismiss warnings,
With comments made and the giving of clues......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbXcX ccaaddaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000110 0101101001 10010101010 001001101 110001000001000 110110101110 1011111110010 10010100 10011010010100 0110001011001000001 110100001010011 001001010101110 110100101 1101110101101 0100100001001100001 100101000110010 110010001101011 001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, to are repeated.
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