This is an analysis of the poem Poet Eating Peanuts that begins with:
Nights heavy with suffocating smells, heat . . .
The Sun made its way across the enormous stretch of our country...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb b Xabbac adbXe dddbe XXaaXdb ffXXdcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,6,5,5,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100101011 0110101001010110 11101001010 01001101111 11110101100100 101000010010 001011001011001001010001 01001101010101010 101011110010010 01001101101 1010101010001011 11011101001 01011010101 01110101 1011101000 1111010 110101011110101 1010100111011 11011111101 110111 01 100011001110 1000101001 011111011101 111111011111 11011110110 1110100011101 0111011111 1111111100101 1010010001101011 0100111 0100101111110 01111010010111 011101110 010111110111110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; of, i, want, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they, the, because are repeated.
The author used the same word brazil at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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