This is an analysis of the poem Grand-Father's Clock that begins with:
My grand-father's clock was too large for the shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdCD EECD fgfgbdCD EECD hdhdXdCD EECD ijijjdCDXEECD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,8,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11101111101 101100101 011011101101 101101011 0111010011111 111101011 1011100101 10111 100011001111 01101001111 011100101 10111 01001001011 1010111101 101111101101 101101101 1011011110101 001011001 1011100101 10111 100011001111 01101001111 011100101 10111 111011011110 101011011 1010111111010 101011001 1010011010101 101101101 1011100101 10111 100011001111 01101001111 011100101 10111 01101001001 101110101 111101011011 1010001011 1011010011101 111001101 1011100101 10111 100011001111 01101001111 011100101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, tick, and, to, its, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tick is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word died at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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