Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 21-24
Oh, oh, oh! she cried
as the ambulance men lifted
her to the stretcher—
Is this what you call
- We leap forward in time and hear the grandmother crying as the ambulance men haul her out of the house on a stretcher.
- Notice how the "Oh, oh, oh!" here rhymes with the grandmother's "No, no, no" from line 12. It kinda marks the progression of the story, right?
- The rhyme calls attention to the fact that she was refusing to go before, but now she's crying out as she's being hauled away.
- In the final line of the stanza, the grandmother revs up to give us some sass as enjambment takes us to the next stanza.