This is an analysis of the poem The Happiest Girl In The World that begins with:

A week ago; only a little week:
it seems so much much longer, though that day... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdd efghij ggklba ihXminnhjf nmopmpl qirXhXl pbsla hefXpeleahehmjhhXh lfsnfhtan lnXppbgXfeneXXeu nlldeXXgn nbhnl udinhiladhnmahiobemfhehnenlfellolabh piuimbndkban bhhraXeXbettX fXnn elugbnhcghgd hopni abmutbmm bqnshdimX elenper bfhjhpihm annhbi dejjbtp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,10,7,7,5,18,9,16,9,5,36,12,13,4,12,5,8,9,7,9,6,23,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101100101 0111110111 01001011101 1111101101 1111010011 11001011101 0101111111 0111110101 1111011111 1000111110 1101010111 1111010101 0101101101 1111110111 1111011111 1101110101 1111111111 1111010111 1101010101 10101011101 100111101100 11001011001101 1101011111 1011111111 1011110111 1011011111 111010101111 1111111101 1011100111 1111010111 11011011100 1011111111 1111010111 11010011111 1011110001 01110100001 1111011100 1111110111 11001110100 11001110001 11110111100 1111111101 1101011111 1100110101 0101101111 1111111101 0111010101 1111111111 0111111101 1101010001 110101010100 1100011111 1111010011 01011111001 1101011111 1111010101 01011100101 1111010111 00110011001 1011011111 1001111101 1101001101 10111001111 11010111010 1111111111 1011110101 1111111111 1110111111 1101101101 1101010011 1110110101 1101111100 1101011111 0111011110 1111011101 1001100110 1001110101000 1111110001 1111011111 1101110101 1101111011 0101111111 0111011101 1111111011 10011100111 110010001 111111110010 11010110110010 1111111111 1111010101 1111011101 1011111011 1111010111 1101011111 1100111101 110101110100 111011110100 1111001101 1011110111 11011101001 11000100101 1101011111 1001010110 1111010111 1101010101 1111011011 0111011101 1011011100 0111111101 1111010111 0111111111 1111110101 0111110111 11010110101 1001001101 10010010101 0101010101 11001000101 1001010011 10110101010 0101011101 11111100101 1110110111 0101010100 00010010011 0101011101 1101011101 1101011101 0101110101 1111011011 1101011101 0111111111 1111110101 11010101101 10110101001 1101001100 1101011101 1011010101 1111110001 1111000101 1111111111 1101010111 1111111001 0101011101 1101010011 1101010011 1111110111 1111111101 1111111101 1110110111 1100010101 1111111010 1101111101 1101000101 1110111011 1011011101 11101010111 110111101110 0111010111 101011111110 11011001001 01111011111 1101110100 1111111100 110011001110 1110110111 1010011001110 1111011101 1111111111 1101001101 1101010101 11000011101 0111110001 1101110111 0101110111 0101000101 11001100101 0101110101 1101011111 1111010010 1111110111 1111110101 010110011110 1111011101 1101011101 1101100111 1101000111 1101010001 1101001011 1101010101 1111001100 1111000101 1101011101 1100110111 1111111110 1101111101 1110011101 1110011101 1110010101 1110010101 1110011101 0111110101 11010101000 1111011111 1111011101 1111000101 1111010111 1101011101 1100111100 1111010101 1111111111 1101010101 11111101011 01001011111 1101111101 1111101111 1101010111 1111110101 1101110111 1011110101 1001010111 1011111001 1101110111 0101010111 1101110101 1111011111 1100011110 1111111111 1111010111 1010111101 1111110100 1111001111 1111100101 1111010001 1001011101 1111110101 1100110101 1101111011 0101011011 0101010011 1001110111 1101010111 0110010010 1101111101 1111011101 1111011101 1101111101 1011111101 0101111111 0101111101 1110111111 1111111101 1111111111 1110010111 1111101101 11001111110 1111110101 1011101101 1101001101 1101011101 1101010111 0110101111 1101111111 1011111111 1101001011 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 266
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, i, you, he, sing, love, for, that, him, me, no, to, be, some, would, dear are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, sing, that, he, where, oh, have, together are repeated.

    The author used the same words a, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines yesterday, love, fair, he, no, me, rest are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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