This is an analysis of the poem Grand-Pa's Whim that begins with:
While for me gapes the greedy grave
It don't make sense...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededcbcb fgfggbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 0111 11110101 0111 11011101 1111 1101101 1111 110100001 1111 11010111 0101 01011101 1101 11110111 1111 01001111 1111 11000101 0101 11110101 1111 11111101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Grand-Pa's Whim;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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