This is an analysis of the poem Song Composed For Washington's Birthday that begins with:
A hundred years and more ago
A little child was born --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc abab dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001101 010111 01010101 110011 11111101 010101 010001001 111111 11010101 011101 11010101 011111 01100101 0101001 11111111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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