This is an analysis of the poem A Short Song Of Congratulation that begins with:
LONG-EXPECTED one and twenty
Ling'ring year at last has flown, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xefe agag cdcd Xgfg chXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 1011111 11101110 1111111 10001010 1010101 11111110 1010111 10101110 1011111 100110010 1010011 11111110 1011101 101001110 1010111 11111010 1010100 10101010 1011111 10101100 1011101 11101110 1011111 001001010 1010101 11101110 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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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