This is an analysis of the poem Birthday Honours that begins with:
My natal day was yesterday;
And so I said to Fate,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCXdede AXCXXXfX AfCXbXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 111101 11111111 0111010 11010101 011111 11011001 010101 10111101 111101 11111111 1100100 111111001 1000111 01011001 110111 10111101 111101 11111111 0110010 11111111 111101 11111101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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