This is an analysis of the poem My Father's Birthday that begins with:
October 15, 1859
It is dreamy, soft October,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcbdbdX ddXdebfb addddccc fgXgdded Xhhhdgdg Xfhfgiei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 00101010 1110101 00101011 1001101 001001010 1110001 10101010 110101110 10111111 1110100 11110010 1110101 111010100 1011101 10101010 1111111 11111010 0110101 11111010 1010101 001001010 1110001 101001010 1010111 11111010 1110101 11101010 1010001 10101110 1111011 11111010 0010001 10101010 0010011 11111011 0100011 10011111 10101010 11101111 01100010 11100010 1110111 10101011 11011101 111001010 00101001 10101010 0011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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