This is an analysis of the poem A Birthday that begins with:
The love within my heart that dwells
Knows nought of days or hours;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaba cdcdXd ececbc dfdfgf hghgeg cecefe eieigi afafcf iiiiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011111 1101110 11100101 111001010 11101001001 00101110 11011101 011101 11010101 11011101 111010011 1101111 11110101 111101 110101001 11101111 10101001001 1010111 11010111 1100001 01010101 111100 0110101101 1011111 11010111 011101 011110111 01010111 101111111 1111111 00010101 011101 01110111 11010001 1111111111 1111111 11110110 110101 11010101 01011101 1010110111 1011101 11111111 011101 110010010 11100101 1111100001 1111111 11011111 110101 11111101 01111111 1110111101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, thy, ere, did, and, no are repeated.
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