This is an analysis of the poem Ninetieth Birthday that begins with:
You go up the long track
That will take a car, but is best walked...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdecceXbffcX cagdhXggccehf Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,13,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 101011011 11110010 11100101 001111011 111100110 010111101 11100011 0010110010 1011111 101101011 101111011 100111101 00111001 111011110 11101001 011101110 110100110 111101101 0010010 11010 111101011 0111001 111101 1011111 011001001 0111011 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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