Analysis of The Banana's Lullaby
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
When grandma wished to keep her fruit
Her apples she would take
And put them on a bed of straw
At rest, but wide awake;
But newer days have newer modes,
And now, that it may keep,
They give an orange opiates
And sing it off to sleep.
And they're telling bedtime stories to bananas,
And rocking little raspberries to rest.
They will dope an apple silly,
And it wakes in Piccadilly
From a beauty sleep that makes it look its best.
It seems a heartless kind of trick
To play on helpless pears;
To lull them off to slumberland
And soothe their nervous cares,
Only to wake them up again,
Weeks after, on a plate,
On the day of execution
To announce their cruel fate.
But they're telling bedtime stories to bananas,
And putting plums to by-by on a ship,
And they never have a notion
They have been across the ocean,
So they even miss the pleasure of the trip.
Scheme | ABXBXCXC DEFFE XGAGXHIH DJIIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 010111 01110111 111101 11011101 011111 11110100 011111 01101101010 010101011 11111010 0110100 10101111111 11010111 111101 111111 011101 10111101 110101 1011010 1011101 11101101010 0101111101 01101010 11101010 11101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 837 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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