This is an analysis of the poem Strange Fruit that begins with:
Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd.
Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XaXXXXXbabXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111011 101111111 1100011001 1111010001 1011010010 1010100010 0101011011 0100011100110 10010001 0100100100 1001010100 01011001 110000100 1110011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
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