This is an analysis of the poem When There's Health In The House that begins with:

When there's good health In the house, there is laughter everywhere,
And the skies are bright and sunny and the roads are smooth and fair,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ccgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011010101 101111101011111 101010101010101 111000101110001 110100111111001 101010110010001 101010101010111 101011101010111 11010011111111 101111101011101 101110101110111 101111101110101 11010010011101 1010010111110101 101110101010001 101000101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, for, his, he, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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