This is an analysis of the poem Eudaemon that begins with:
O happiness, I know not what far seas,
Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dadaee fcfcXa gcgchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100111111 1111110101 1101010100 110011 0101010101 010110110101 1011010011 0101000100 0111010101 111001 1111011101 110101101101 110100001011 10010101001 1111011100 110111 10111000011 010101001101 1001000101 01110101001 0100010001 101111 11001111001 1111011000111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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