This is an analysis of the poem The Things That Cause A Quiet Life that begins with:
My friend, the things that do attain
The happy life be these, I find:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXed ffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 01010111 01011101 01010101 01011111 11011100 01010101 01100100 01101101 11010100 0101011 11011101 01010101 11110101 10100101 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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