This is an analysis of the poem For A Thirteenth Birthday that begins with:
You have read War and Peace.
Now here is Sister Carrie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefffgea XehehccdgijklXXm nkeaneeeohe Xbfeeebodhf emjfjedjfeieglaXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,16,11,11,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1101010 110111 0010011 01001110 10111 1111 1111 11011011 11010 0111 11110 11101 111101 10110100011 101101101 10111100110100 111001001 10111100101 11111001 101111101 11011010 1001110 011101101 111001100 11001100 01011011010 1100100111001 100100 10111010 111010110 010100111 11011010 10101 111011010 1111110 1001101 1110101 1111110 0100100 010111011 111010 101111 10110 01011110 01001001 0111010010 100101111 010101 111111 1101110 1111010 111110011 0011111 11111111 11111 111101 111 1010110 1001001 0100011 10111 10101 111010 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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