This is an analysis of the poem A Felicitous Life that begins with:
His old age fell on years of abundant harvest.
There were no earthquakes, droughts or floods. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacdd caX Xbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011110001010 10111111 0110010001010100 1111010101 100011001111 101011100101 01001001110010010 01100111001101 11100101001 1010100010011001 1110010101101 11001001010100 10110101011 110100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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- summary of A Felicitous Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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