This is an analysis of the poem The United Fruit Co. that begins with:

When the trumpet sounded, it was
all prepared on the earth, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcaXdecafeaacXgeaaaaeXaaX afdeXf hXdXhgdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10101001 101101 0010100101 0101011010 110110100 011001 0110101100 01010111 0100100100 011001010 10010010 1100101 1001010 11010100100101 001001010 010010000 0101010 10010010 00101001 0101101 101011 100111 01011101 10111 10010101 10111 110100 0101101 01100101 101010101 0100101 1010111 110001 11100110 000101 00101 1100001001 010101 111101010 0100011 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; flies is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines earth, flies are repeated).

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