This is an analysis of the poem Granny that begins with:
Here, in her elbow chair, she sits
A soul alert, alive,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe Xgcg dece cchc aiai aede eaha ccec eXXc hjhj kded dlbl hXck ghXh fXal
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 010101 01110111 011001 11011101 0111001 110101001 010101 01001110 110101 01000101 010011 01110011 111101 01010001 010111 10010101 010001 110100001 101111 11110011 1101010 01011010 01001010 11010101 0100101 10110101 0111001 11111101 110111 01110011 010111 01011101 111101 11010000 101110 010011000 011011 01010001 111101 01100101 110111 01010101 010101 11000111 010101 11111011 110101 11000101 100111 01010001 011101 11001111 110111 01110111 110111 10110101 010011 01010101 110101 10011111 110111 01110101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, this, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Granny;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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