This is an analysis of the poem The Joys Of Earth that begins with:
LAUGHTER and song and mirth,
Roses that drip with dew, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAbcdcd cbcbefef cgcgbhbhXAfafcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 101101 110101 111101 101111 111011 111101 100111 100111 100101 100101 111101 101111 100101 101101 110101 100111 1011 1111011 1101 111101 11011 111111 11011 110101 1111 101111 10111 100111 1111 100111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nothing is repeated.
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- summary of The Joys Of Earth;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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