Analysis of Birthday Wish
Amanda East 1976 (Ogden)
A flick of your wrist,
Lurking with style.
A pick you would twist
Smirking a smile.
It’s not what you said,
Inflictions bear fear
It is what you bled,
Depictions are clear.
A Hallmark greeting
For a birthday Dear
Ought to be pleasing
Not a swordplay jeer.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EDED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01111 1011 01111 1001 11111 111 11111 01011 0110 1011 11110 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 259 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
I wronged someone and so I got a mean birthday card that year. Thus the poem.
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Written on June 11, 2008
Submitted by Oceanloveisland on November 17, 2022
Modified on April 23, 2023
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