This is an analysis of the poem Think Happy Thoughts that begins with:
Think happy thoughts!
Think sunshine all the day;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbccddeeffA AgghheecciiA AaajjccbbhhA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101 111101 0101010101 1001010011 1000010111 1001010101 11011111 1001010101 0111011111 0111010001 0101010001 1101 1101 111001 100111111101 101100111101 0111110101 01011101110 01011101010 0011111101 0101101101 10011101010 01000111010 1101 1101 001100 1101111001 1101011011 10110101001 1101011101 0101010111 1101001101 1101011001 1101110101 1011111101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 477
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; think, of, not, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words think, the, that are repeated.
The author used the same word think at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thoughts is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word thoughts at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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