This is an analysis of the poem The Fortune-Favored that begins with:
Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each god
Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the bright...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbbdedeaeaeffgccghhiiiiejaeaaaacaXffkkchddchllaamfdfdmeaaeeeeeggffggbbbbaaddgfcfeimfjmfbibb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 94,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 11011100101 0101011101 01001010011 11001010101 1101001110101 1001011101 1101011101 1111011111 1011010101 1001111101 1101011001 1010011101 0101001101 1111011101 10110100111 0101000100 1101010101 011100001001 1111011101 100100101001 1011100111 00101110101 1011010101 110111110101 0011110101 1101010101 0101010100 1111010101 1111010101 0011100101 10011010001 0101001101 1111111011 11110100111 01000100101 11010001100 11001011101 0101010111 0101010101 0101100101 0110010001 1111010101 1001010111 0101010001 1101010101 01010100101 01010101001 0101010001 10001000111 0101111001 1101010101 011100101010 1111000101 01010101010 1101110101 1101011101 110111101 11010001001 1101110111 1101010101 0101010101 0111000101 0101000101 10110001001 1101000100 0011011101 0101010111 0111110111 0011010101 1110000101 0111110101 0111010101 10101000101 1011110001 0101010101 0101011001 11010100101 1001110111 0101110101 1001000111 0101111100 1001010101 1011001111 1111011100 10001011101 0101010011 1111000100 110010011001 1111011111 11011010101 1011011101 1011001001 1001001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4230
- Average number of words per stanza: 743
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; whose, his, and, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, that, if, no are repeated.
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