This is an analysis of the poem Bryant’s Seventieth Birthday that begins with:
NOVEMBER 3, 1864
O EVEN-HANDED Nature! we confess... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaa bbb ccc bbb ddd eef bbb ggg eee hhh iia hhXh iai iii jjj ccc kkk iii jjj hhh bbb iXi efe kkk iai hhh kkk kXhk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011 1101010101 0111110111 1111010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101001111 110111100101 1111010101 1101010101 111110101 11010010101 0101011101 0101110001 0111010111 1001010100 11111111010 10111101010 1101010001 1111010001 01001010111 10111101111 01001110101 1101000101 1001110001 11010111010 0111110010110 11010101010 01010111001 01001110101 0101111101 11001011101 01100100101 1010110101 1111011101 1001010001 110101010 1 1111011101 0101010101 1101110101 1111110101 1101011111 110110101001 1101110101 1001010001 1101010111 11110101001 11010010101 1101010101 1001110011 0011010111 00110100101 1011010101 10110100101 11010101001 1011010101 1011010101 1111101101 1101110101 0101111101 10001011101 0101110111 1001010101 1011010101 1100010101 01010101000 11010100101 01110111010 1001111101 01010001010 1111010101 1101100101 1111110111 1101110101 1101010101 0111001101 1101011101 110100010001 11010011101 01110111001 01010010101 0101011111 0101010101 01010111010 110011011001 01
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, his, with, nor, their, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, in, as, the are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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