This is an analysis of the poem You Rather Have Yours Split Without A Banana that begins with:

No one has to know...
You rather have yours split, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXaaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 110111 010010 11011101 010101001 1110 1100100 01001011 1101110 0111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • 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; you is repeated.

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