This is an analysis of the poem The Birth that begins with:

Seven o'clock. The seventh day of the seventh month of the year.
No sooner have I got myself up in lime-green scrubs,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab cdaX cdXb XXXcdac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010100101001 1101111110111 010111 110111010010 101010111 1101 10101110011 10001000 10101011000110111 1101010010 01011011000110 1100101010 110101000010010 0111011010 100110001111101 111001101 11 0100100111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Birth;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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