Analysis of On My Wedding-Day
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Here's a happy new year! but with reason
I beg you'll permit me to say
Wish me many returns of the season,
But as few as you please of the dy.
January 2, 1820.
Scheme | AXAX X |
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Poetic Form | Cinquain (20%) |
Metre | 1010111110 11101111 1110011010 111111101 100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 163 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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