This is an analysis of the poem The Common Joys that begins with:
THESE joys are free to all who live
The rich and poor, the great and low: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dededfdf gdgddbdb hihidjdj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 01110111 01110101 01110101 01000111 01000101 11000101 111100101 11111111 11011101 01001101 11010101 11010101 01110101 11011101 100100111 11110111 11110101 11110011 010010101 11110101 11010111 01011101 11011101 11011111 01010111 01011101 01011101 11111101 11110101 11110111 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, nor, not, all, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, not, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Common Joys;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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