This is an analysis of the poem A Birthday that begins with:
THE three Fates sat in a house of birth,
Ah, well a day; ah, well a day;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaabX cBccbX cBccXX dBddbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101 11011101 11011101 111110101 1110111 1 11110101 11011101 110101101 111100101 110101 1 1110110101 11011101 1100110110 1100011101 110110 1 01110100 11011101 11011101 11110111 1010111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; one is repeated.
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