EATING A BANANA



Take any yellow banana
     "This one is a flatter!"
Pick it up with your fingers
     "It doesn't matter!"
Peel this banana
     "What's the laughter?"
Bite into the banana
     "It's no gasser!"

You can eat it with cereal in a round bowl
You don't use a fork but a spoon because of the hole
Pour some milk into the bowl
Pick up the spoon and get ready to go.

Look for a banana
     "This one looks bold!"
Cut it in the middle and put ice-cream on top that's very cold
On top you may have whipped-cream, cherries, or syrup
     "How much can it hold?"
Come on and eat this banana split
     "Who's being told?"

You can eat any banana and it doesn't matter what I say
There's no core, a stem, or tiny seeds to get in the way
Only the skin and that's to throw away.

About this poem

This was written December 02, 1983. This poem was published in the anthology Today's Great Poems and Copyright 1994 by The Famous Poets Society. Copyright 2023 by sweetslimited.

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Written on December 02, 1983

Submitted by markanthonyschroettner on January 22, 2024

Modified by markanthonyschroettner on January 26, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXBABAB CCCX ADDXDXD EEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 767
Words 157
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 7, 3

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