This is an analysis of Thomas Bailey Aldrich by Henry Van Dyke.
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BIRTHDAY VERSES…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a b bcbc aXaX dcdc bebe XcXc ecec X X X fggffggf hfhfhf
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,1,8,6,
- Metre: 1 1110 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101001101 11110011111 101100100 1101011111 1101011100 1101110011 0101011111 0101110011 1111111011 11001011101 1101010100 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1100010101 110101010111 1111111101 1110111111 0111010101 1111011101 0100010101 01011 1 010010 0001110101 0101001101 0101000101 11011100101 1101010111 1111010111 0101010101 0101011101 1101011101 0101110111 11110100101 0101100101 1101010101 0111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, of
Anaphora
and
Anadiplosis
you
