This is an analysis of the poem How Still, How Happy! that begins with:
How still, how happy! Those are words
That once would scarce agree together;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb aaaa cdcd eaea XeXe fdfd eded cgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 111101010 11010001 0101001010 11111101 11010101 10010111 10011111 11110111 11010101 11011101 110101001 11110101 1101101001 11111101 110110101 11100101 11011101 01011101 11110101 001111001 01111101 11110101 11110101 01011100 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11101101 11111101 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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