This is an analysis of the poem Joy To Have Merited The Pain that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 101100010 01001000 1011010010 01010000 10001011100 01110100 10110010010 11010000 0111111000 1111110 110010100 01010100 11111100 1100000100 11010000 0100010 0111000 1100010 0101111100 11001010 0100111 010101 1101000001 11000000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word paradise at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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