This is an analysis of the poem The Happy Flatite that begins with:
We were living in a flat; it was number eighty-three.
At eighty-four the Barleys lived, a fearsome man was he.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaX ffgg ffcc hhcc iijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10100010110101 11010101010111 110111001111111 11110101010101 11010111110101 11010101010111 11110011111101 010101001111011 11010100110001 11010101111101 11110101110101 11010100110100 11010101110101 11010101010001 11000101111101 10011111110101 01010101111101 11001111111111 01100111010111 11011110010001 11010100010101 111111001010101 11111110110011 101010011110111 11010101111101 11110101110101 111010101110011 01000111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, barley, of, she, we, flat are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and 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.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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- summary of The Happy Flatite;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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