This is an analysis of the poem Poem For My Twentieth Birthday that begins with:
Passing the American graveyard, for my birthday
the crosses stuttering, white on tropical green, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XXa XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000100111111 010100111001 00110010111010 011101010010 111111011010100 1101010 11111000101100 0100010101010 001000101 011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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