This is an analysis of the poem The Last Words Of My English Grandmother that begins with:
There were some dirty plates
and a glass of milk...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc cXdc efgg egcb daed ccXb bheb gXcf gXXcXdhcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 10101 01010110 1010101 101101 11110 10010001 0111 101001 1101 011111 00100011 111001 1111 0011011 110111 111111 111 111111 1111111 11111 10100110 00010 00111 1011000 110111 11111 1110 111111 111101 1110 101 11011 011110 0110 01001011 1111 1010111 10010 00110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, you, please, oh are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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