This is an analysis of the poem On My Birthday, July 21 that begins with:
I, MY dear, was born to-day--
So all my jolly comrades say: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaXaacceeffggaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 11110111 11110111 11010111 10011111 11110111 01010011 1011101 110110111 1111101 1111101 11010101 101011111 01010111 1010111 11010111 111100101 11111101 11111101 010010011 11111101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 747
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, i are repeated.
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