This is an analysis of the poem Barbara: Born 24th March, 1915 that begins with:
You come in the day of destiny,
Barbara, born to the air of Mars:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd efef dgdg gbgb hghg gigi jgjg fhfh fffX aaaa akak egjg fkfk alal afaf ckck bmbm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110010100 100100101 01010111 101010111 01010101 10010111 11010101 11010111 010101010 010100001 1001101010 11111111 11011101 101011001 101100111 01010101 11101101010 100010001 010010011010 0111001001 10010001011 100101101 1001001111 010110011000 1111101101 11110111 1101101011 01010011 111110111 010111011 100011011 100111111 111111111 010111101 01010101 11010111 10100101101 0010101001 1101001101 11001011010 101110111 0100100101 111010100 1111101101 10100100101 010101101 010010101 01100111 110111110 111110101 11011111 10010011 0101001001 010100111 1111100101 10110111 011101101 1110100101 1011101101 101110111 0101001101 100101001 01010111 101011001001 1010101001 1100101110 11011111 100101010 111100101 1011010101 110100101 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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, that, o, our, in, with, one, against are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, barbara, that, when, one are repeated.
The author used the same word be at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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