This is an analysis of the poem June 11 that begins with:

It's my birtday I've got an empty
stomach and the desire to be...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXcaXXdXcbedXefdfb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011110 101001000 100010110 110111011 00010010 101110110 01111011 1010110110 010011011 11111011 01010111 11111100 11101111 11010101 01010010100 010011111 011111110 110110100 11010101 01101011 101101111 101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 753
  • Average number of words per stanza: 147
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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.

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