This is an analysis of the poem The Happy Man that begins with:
If you would know a happy man,
Go find the fellow who...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCB bded Xbeb fbfb Xgdg bhfhXaBCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 110101 11010101 111101 01010101 110111 11110101 110101 11010111 111101 01010101 110111 11011101 110101 11110111 111111 01110101 111101 11110111 0101001 01001111 0101011 11010101 010101 01110101 110101 11010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; he is repeated.
The author used the same word he's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Happy Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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