This is an analysis of the poem Granny that begins with:
1 Granny's come to our house,
2 And ho! my lawzy-daisy! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb XdedXbfb gXgXXbgb fdXdebXbXababcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 11111010 11010101 10101010 11011101 11101110 111011101 11101110 11010001 11111010 11010101 11101010 111010110 11101010 11010101 11101110 11110101 11010100 111011010 1111010 1101110000 1110010110 11011111 1100110 11001010010 1110101010 1101010000 1101110 11110101 1101010 11010101 1111010 1101011 1111010 11010101 10101010 11011101 11101110 111011101 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fer, fetched, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word granny at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Granny;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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