This is an analysis of the poem Solitude: An Ode that begins with:
I.
How happy he, who free from care ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbc Xdede Xdada XcfcfXafafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011101 01011101 01010101 0011 1 11011101 110110010 11010111 01010 1 11110001 101101101 01010101 1011 1 11111011 010111010 11001111 01010 1 11110101 11000111 10011101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; whose, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, thus are repeated.
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