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


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
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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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sonja votolen

... poetry and prose writer, Slovenia, published eight books of poetry , a few drama texts and two prose works; also writing for different newspapers and magazines, she runs literary meetings, received awards for poetry in Italy , even the first international prize for poetry in Rome 2001. My poems in Italian were translated by Jolka Milič, a great Slovenian translator. 2019: two poetry books were published- Tudi brez peruti sem ptica ( in Slovenia) and Quando l'erba è giovane / Ko je trava mlada, 2019 ( in Italy, bilingual) more…

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