Poem Analysis of Beans Taste Fine by Shel Silverstein for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Beans Taste Fine that begins with:

Now a friend of mine, way back in Chicago
You know, he finally made his pile....

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Rhyme scheme: XaXabbcXdEBcXFDEXbghgXXbhdEBaXFDEX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10101110011 111100101 1110101011011 1111000101 111001111000101 11001101101 1110111110 11101101 111 10101011011 1111 110101001110 11010110 111101011011 11001001011 10101011011 11110 1111100010101 00101111 111001111011 11110010011110101 1111100110110 111110001 11101101011 1111010101 11 10101011011 1111 11010100111010 11010110110 111101011011 11001001011 10101011011 11110
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1413
Average number of words per stanza: 275
Amount of lines: 34
Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, in, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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Beans Taste Fine by Shel Silverstein: poem analysis

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