This is an analysis of the poem Happiness Of A Country Life that begins with:
Oh! knew he but his happiness, of men
The happiest he, who, far from public rage,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdbbXebdbcfghddheagbiXjXhhieghkbXjkfXbgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010001 01001110101 1001001101 1011000101 1101010111 1101010101 0101101101 1101110101 01001010111 1101110101 0111010111 1101111101 1111010101 11101000101 0100111101 1101011101 1011110101 11010100101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010001 1100010101 0101010101 1010010101 01111101001 110010101101 1101011101 1001011101 0111000101 1111010101 010011010101 1101010101 1101010101 0001010101 1111010101 1101010111 1101011101 1111011100 1001010101 1001100101 1101010001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1893
- Average number of words per stanza: 319
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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