This is an analysis of the poem My Birthday that begins with:
Let the sun summon all his beams to hold
Bright pageant in his court, the cloud-paved sky ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXcdc ababbebeee fgfgghgXih ejejjdjadX fifbiikikXk feXeeaXeaca dgdXgegegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,11,11,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010101 1100010111 1101110101 1011010101 0011111111 01001011101 1111110100 01110010111 11110111110 11 10110101001 0101011011 0101111101 10110111001 1111010101 1101010001 1111010101 0101000111 1010101111 1001 11010110101 0100100100101 100100111001 1011010111 1111010111 0101111011 0100110101 0101010100 11011110110 1 1101111101 1101100101 1011011101 10101011101 0101011101 10111010010 0101010101 1100101111 10 1001111111010 1101011101 1101100101 1111011101 01111111 01 1111001011 11001010001 1111010101 11001110101 0101110111 11 1101110101 1111010111 1101011110 11110101001 11011101011 11011101011 101111010 1 1101111111 11011111010 1 1101110001 1101000101 1001110101 11010100110 1011010101 0101000101 1111010101 1001010111 110101101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; my, and, thy, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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- summary of My Birthday;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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