This is an analysis of the poem Poem On His Birthday that begins with:
In the mustardseed sun,
By full tilt river and switchback sea...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdedfg hdcdijkdl kblccbldc Xgdccmaci nXomdfmjo mmcldhcdb gbcdlmmcl badhdmodj ccjXdacnc eejjdddXm eldlbaicdXdanhchdab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 001001 111101101 101001 001111011 110001 010100111 110111 011101111 10111 101111 101111101 101111 1001001001 111101 101000111 110111 101011001 10111 001001 110110101 001101 101011101 111101 110100101 001101 101100101 101011 0100101 010100111 111111 110010101 100101 10101101 010111 011111101 100011 001001 1010111001 101111 1111101011 110101 101010011 100101 011100101 111001 110111 000110101 110011 100111001 101101 100100101 101101 101110001 011101 111101 001000111 101111 100100101 1100011 01111101 1100101 1011001101 011101 110011 110100101 010101 110100101 011001 1010101101 110101 111000111 100101 100101 111101111 110001 1111111010 110101 010010111 111001 111101001 111001 110011 101101001 101011 001011101 101111 101110101 100111 100100111 101101 101011 0111101001 010011 1010100101 11001001 111100111 010101 110110111 101001 110101 1101101101 110111 1001000111 110101 0100100101 100111 111011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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