This is an analysis of the poem A Health To Mark Twain that begins with:

At his Birthday Feast
With memories old and wishes new... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abAbbbabaccaAb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 10111 010011101 111101 11011101 011111 111111010 010101010 11111101 111101001 11110101 11110101 11111111 11010101 11011101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, your, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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