This is an analysis of the poem Birthday that begins with:
Birthday
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XabbccXcddcXaXeeaaffaagghh XX X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,26,2,1,26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 1111111010110 1001101010110 010010010010 1010111010010 101011011011 01011001111 100010110000 11111011010111 10011010010110 110110010110 101101111101 10100110010 101101111001 10110001011000 111001011101 111011101101 11101011111 111111001011 111101001011 1111010011111 110011011010 010111110110 101111111011 01001001001 1011010101101 1100011110001 0100101101100 11100 1000 11010110110 10010011011 110110110110 11010011010 11111111 10010011010 10101011 100101111 110100110110 110110110110 110100110010 1101100111011 110100110110 01100011100 1001101101110 1010011110 110011100110 11110001010010 1111011011 1110110 111001011 10011010010010 110100100100 100100110110 110100100110110 1010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; and, t, i, what, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines opot, ca are repeated).
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