This is an analysis of the poem Grandfather that begins with:
The yellowed diary's notes whisper in vernacular.
They sound the forgotten posture,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX cbdX eaXX efga hhgc iacX bXhj dfhj gacb bkdiXikga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001011000100 11001010 01111010111 1110101111 1010101 10011011010 011001100110 01111100010011 11010101001 11011101010 111010100111 11001010101 01101100110 001110110011 111101111 100010010010 110110111011 011000110111 111100010101 0101110100001 010001111010 1001110110 1111110111101 01001101010011 010111101101 01111001011 1001011101 1111101101011 010000011101 01010110111011 11100110111111 10101111111111 10011001111 1010100101110 11101001101 11111101011 10011111010010 111111 1111101000110 010100 110011000 11111101010101 11111011011 0010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, your, you, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we 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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