Analysis of Great Grandparents I Knew
Old, wise, and tainted gray;
Battered through life, what else can they say?
My mom was Miss, and my father was Mister.
My grandfather was so and so, and my grandmother an A-lister.
Great-grandparents I hardly knew.
I guess I should ask Mom and Pop, who is who.
DeDe A. Reid
| Scheme | A A B B C C X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 101111111 11110110110 110110101101010 1101101 11111101111 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 267 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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