This is an analysis of the poem Bec’s Birth-Day Nov. 8, 1726 that begins with:
This day, dear Bec, is thy nativity;
Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it ye.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddeeffbbccggeehdhhbbhdbbeeiieejjddXkgghhhheekklleehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010100 11010011101 11010101 11010011 10010001 01011100 11110101 01011101 11110101 01010111 10011101 10010101 10111111 010001001 11011111 01100101 01011101 11010111 11010001 01110101 11000101 01111001 1101010010 11010111 011101110 010101110 110100101 01010101 110101010 01111101 11111101 100010101 01010101 11010101 110101010 111101010 11110001 11110101 111101101 010100001 11110101 11110001 1011001010 010111010 11100101 10111101 110101010 010101010 110101010 110111010 01011101 01010101 1001010100 0101010100 110101010 101111010 10011101 11010001 101001010 110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2157
- Average number of words per stanza: 393
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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