This is an analysis of the poem The Happiest Days that begins with:
You do not know it, little man,
In your summer coat of tan...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbb ddeeffggbb hhhhggddee cciiaaddbb eeeeaajjaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 0110101 1110101 1110111 0011111 1110111 1011101 1010101 1011111 11100111 1011101 1110011 1010111 0011111 1111101 1010101 1010111 0010101 1110101 1011101 1011101 1110100 1010111 1111101 1011101 10010111 1110101 1110001 1011111 1110101 1110111 1011111 1111101 1010101 1110011 1010101 11100100 1111101 1110101 1110111 1111111 1011111 1011101 1010101 1110101 1110101 1011101 10010101 1111101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some are repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Happiest Days;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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