This is an analysis of the poem Laughter that begins with:
Laughter sort o' settles breakfast better than digestive pills;
Found it, somehow in my travels, cure for every sort of ills;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccddXX eeffgg hhiihh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101010101 1011011011100101 101011110111101 101011101110101 001110101110101 101010100110111 101010101110101 1110111011100011 111010111110101 101011101010101 111000101110110 111110101010111 101111101110111 111011101110111 101010100111111 111111101010101 100110101010101 101010101110110 0111101010010101 100110101011111 111000101011101 001010111010101 101111101010101 101010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', to, when, for are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Laughter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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