This is an analysis of the poem Grandpa that begins with:
My grandpa is the finest man
Excep' my pa. My grandpa can...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeedd ccbbddeeffdXgX gfddhhXXeeeeXXXddeebbbbaaffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,29,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 10111111 11111101 11010101 11110101 11111101 11111111 11111111 11010111 11010111 11110111 01110101 11000101 10011101 11111111 11011101 11111101 11010111 01111101 01110100 11111101 11110111 11110111 11110101 11111101 11011101 11111111 11110101 11101101 11111101 10111101 11011111 11110111 11010101 11010101 111101010 11111111 11110101 00010101 01011111 110101001 10010111 11111111 010011101 010000111 11110101 11110101 11111101 11010101 11111111 11000101 11010111 11011111 11000101 11010111 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, they, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i'm, i'll are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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