This is an analysis of the poem Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday that begins with:
a slow thoughtful spontaneous poem
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc dcXaadacefdggebeXhdiiieehgheefXXgjgXkXjkghX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,43,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110010010 11101 11001111011 00001011011 0110111 0110100111 01101 101101110101 11111101101 110101 11110101 1010011010111 11110011011 11110000111100 1010010110101 111010110010 1111100110 1010111111 011110101010 11111011 1111001011001110 001110101 0101011110 101110101 1110 111111 11110101101 010110 10111111011100 10100 011101010 1111010110 1010101100 11011010 111111101 11011101101 01010011011010 1001010101111 11100010111 11011 1010101101 1011101 0111111001 101010010 11010010100 10111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, s, no, to, so, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, i, and are repeated.
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