This is an analysis of the poem My Grandmother's House that begins with:

There is a house now far away where once
I received love……. That woman died,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabXbccXXbbaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110111 10111101 0101001011 01111111 0111111101 11011010 1011110101 11000101 1010111100 10010101 0111111010 10100110 1111101011 11111111 1111111010 01111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, and are repeated.

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