This is an analysis of the poem The Nut’s Birthday that begins with:

When Gilbert’s birthday came last spring,
Oh! How our brains were racked... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbXbXefef gcgchchc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 110111101 111101 01010101 110111 11110101 0101010 11110101 0101110 11110101 011100 11000101 010110 01000101 0100101 1101101 1001111 11010101 1100110 01011111 1101010 11110101 1110110 01010011 0111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.

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  • summary of The Nut’s Birthday;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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