This is an analysis of the poem Stella’s Birth-Day. 1724-5 that begins with:
As when a beauteous nymph decays,
We say she's past her dancing days;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddcccceeffggbbhhiiaaaaccjjgghhiiffkkccaakkiikk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11110101 11011111 11110101 110011101 01011101 11011111 01010101 101110110 010111010 11000101 11100101 11010101 11010111 10111101 11100101 01011101 11011101 11010101 01101101 110101001 01110001 11010001 11010111 11010101 11001111 011111001 11011101 11011101 11011101 01110001 010100101 10010101 01011101 11011101 01111101 11100101 11110001 11111101 11010111 11110101 11111101 11011001 01010111 11010101 10010101 11110011 01011101 11011111 10110111 11110101 11110111 11110101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1848
- Average number of words per stanza: 360
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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