Analysis of Happy Birthday, Father!

Justina Sviatodukhova 1978 (Sumy region)



I wish you a Happy Birthday, Father!
May all Your dreams come true!
Many, many happy returns of the Day,
The gifts and flowers are for You!


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 111010110 111111 10101001101 01010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 136
Words 27
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Justina Sviatodukhova

A writer, a poetess, a spiritual psychologist, an English and French teacher from Ukraine. Teaching experience - 21 years. more…

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