This is an analysis of the poem Birthdays that begins with:
Next birthday
I am thirty-six,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXaXcXdeXdb cfagXdXhhXfffad eXaXdbgbXXhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,15,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 11101 11101 100 011 11 1101 1111 1 1111 111101 010011 11 0101 111 111 10100101010 101010 01010 00110 1010101 10101010 110 1011 100111 010111 1 011 1 1101 0111 1 11010 01111 1101 1111010 010 01111111 111111010 110 011 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 17 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
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- central theme;
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