This is an analysis of the poem Birthday Verses that begins with:
Arise, and call her blessed,-seventy years!
Each one a tongue to speak for her, who needs... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXXdeXfX gfaXcXhbXiagib ajaekkhjXkdkhbceaacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,14,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011000 1101011011 1101010101 0100010011 0111110101 1101011000 0101010100 0100100010 0100011110 0101010011 0111010101 011101111 1101010111 1111010101 0101111000 1101010001 100010111001 1100010111 010110111 1101010111 11010001101 1111010111 1011000101 1101010111 0111110111 011101101 1111010101 0101011001 1101011100 0111010111 1100010111 1111011101 11010111101 1111111001 110101101 0111010100 1011011101 1111110101 1101111101 0101010111 1011010100 0101110101 1111010100 0111010101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, she are repeated.
The author used the same word arise at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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