This is an analysis of A Birthday by Alfred Austin.
The love within my heart that dwells
Knows nought of days or hours;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaba cdcdXd ececbc dfdfgf hghgeg cecefe eieigi afafcf iiiiXi
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 01011111 1101110 11100101 111001010 11101001001 00101110 11011101 011101 11010101 11011101 111010011 1101111 11110101 111101 110101001 11101111 10101001001 1010111 11010111 1100001 01010101 111100 0110101101 1011111 11010111 011101 011110111 01010111 101111111 1111111 00010101 011101 01110111 11010001 1111111111 1111111 11110110 110101 11010101 01011101 1010110111 1011101 11111111 011101 110010010 11100101 1111100001 1111111 11011111 110101 11111101 01111111 1110111101 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
i, thy, ere, did, and, no
