This is an analysis of the poem To J. W. On His Birth Day. A Dialogue Between Seventy Two And Twenty Seven that begins with:
Another year to banish gloom,
And still my friend retains his bloom!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbc ddeecc eeffee ggeed dgghXi i jjddkk lhddddXm eeccm X cXcXmmXcccclldd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,5,6,1,6,8,5,1,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11110101 11111101 1100110001 10110001 10001111101 11011101 01010101 11111111 10010111 11011101 101010111 110011001 01010101 01110001 01110101 11110101 11111111 11111111 111110111 11011101 01101101 100111111101 01011101 11011101 011111110 111111011 110111011 100010101111 1100100111 11110100 11011101 01110111 011111011 010101111 1001101111111 111111010 11111101 110100101 01010111 01011101 111111000 111111010 01111101 11011101 11100111 11111111 110111010 1001111111010 110010101 11100111 01101101 11101001 110101110 111101110 11011111 01011101 01111111 11111101 10111101 11111111 11011111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, you, i, old are repeated.
The author used the same word w at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sir, you are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word sir at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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