Analysis of Granny
There's only one heart I've ever loved sincerely
My mum and dad didn't prepare a cradle
they left a newborn baby loaf
My granny's hands and chest and lap were my bed
and her love was food for the baby loaf to grow
I don't blame my mum and dad but
can't call them by these holy words
I found the two of them on my granny's shoulders
She was old and tired in her hut at the
top of a green green hill where we hunt
butterflies and picked up flowers and herbs
She tought me how to be grateful to the simple moments of life
and how to keep the torch to fight against the darkness
Your parents were like perfume but remember she said
each perfume disappears after a while
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMDN |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110111101010 11011001010 11010101 1110101011 001111010111 11111011 11111101 11011111110 11101000110 110111111 100111001 1111111010101011 0111011101010 1100101101011 101011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 526 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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Submitted on July 22, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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