Analysis of Happy Birthday Dad
Happy birthday to you
You haggard old hand
You've age like a goose egg
in spots of your brand
And roosted so easy
in eggs come out right
When your children are spotting
your colors to right
And you're father for honor
of color and blight
Where together your sharing
what love is to sight
And we wish you your birthday
be happy for dad
When your wish is in giving
us birthday shared fad
| Scheme | XAXA XBCB XBCB XDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10111 11011 111011 01111 010110 01111 1110110 11011 0110110 11001 1010110 11111 011111 11011 1111010 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 370 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
a birthday card
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Written on September 26, 2021
Submitted by Poetbird on September 26, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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