This is an analysis of the poem Grass that begins with:
Grass, grass up to my knees!
Grow up to the sky ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cacc dXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 11001 1111100 10111 1110111 110011 11111101 110111 1110101 10011 1011011 1110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, us, of, both are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Grass;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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