This is an analysis of the poem Stella’s Birth-Day: A Great Bottle Of Wine, Long Buried, Being That Day Dug Up. 1722-3 that begins with:
Resolv'd my annual verse to pay,
By duty bound, on Stella's day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffddaaeeXghhiijjffddbbaakkXecciilleeccmmffccccccaaiinnffeeiiffiiiiiigg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101 11011101 10010111 11011101 11111111 11111101 100111001 01110011 01111111 01000111 11110101 11011101 01011001 11010101 11110111 01000101 11111111 11011101 11111111 11000111 110111110 1101010010 11010101 11011011 100101001 11110111 110111111 110101010 11110101 11011011 11111101 11110111 11000111 11000101 010101010 010100010 1111111000 1101111110 11011111 11010101 10111101 10110101 010101010 111101110 1111101 11010111 10111101 11110101 11110001 11010101 11110101 01010101 11110101 01110001 10010101 01010101 01110101 10010101 11010101 01011101 01010101 010100101 010111010 000101010 11010101 100101001 11110001 01010101 10010101 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 11010101 11110101 01010001 01011101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2811
- Average number of words per stanza: 527
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my, how, would, and, you, dean, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, how are repeated.
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