This is an analysis of the poem A Birthday that begins with:
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXbcb XcXcXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11000101 11011101 11110101 11010111 110001001 11010111 01110101 11010111 10011101 1001110000 11100101 10011101 01110101 01011011 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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