This is an analysis of the poem Happiness that begins with:
If he sunbeams will not start you to rejoicing,
If the laughter of your babies you can hear ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedeXfXf XfXfabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011001110010 00100110111 011010101010 01101010111 011110011110 011111111110 11001111010 111010100010 001110101111 00101010001 001001101111 00111110111 011010100110 111111101010 011010111010 1110101000010 001010101110 10111010001 001000111010 10111010101 001011100110 11101010101 111010101110 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; if, you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Happiness;
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