This is an analysis of the poem To H.A.B. On My Forty-Seventh Birthday that begins with:
WHEN one is forty years and seven,
Is seven and forty sad years old,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc cdcddede ececcfcf fgfgXhgh hihiiaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110100110 010110101 111101010 01001111 011010111 111001001 01010101 11111111 111010101 01011111 111101001 11011101 11110101 11110101 011111001 11110101 101110001 10010001 11011101 01010101 11111111 111100111 11000101 010111001 11111111 11110101 11010101 01110111 11100101 11110011 01010101 01010011 10111111 11010101 11010111 11110111 11111011 111111010 11110011 1101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, youth, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, their, and, may, a are repeated.
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