This is an analysis of the poem On My Thirty-Third Birthday, January 22, 1821 that begins with:

Through life's dull road, so dim and dirty,
I have dragg'd to three-and-thirty.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111110 11101110 1110101 1001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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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