This is an analysis of the poem On Happiness that begins with:
Warm'd by the summer sun's meridian ray,
As underneath a spreading oak I lay ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeddffccffgghhiiffaajXccgXaaffkXffkkaaffeffbbcckkddjjccffefffbbaaeealjjaammjjaacceejjbbjjaakknnjjddddaaddalccffjjcckkkkccjjaaffffiillfebbaaooiiXXkkcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 159,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101001 1101010111 1010010101 0101110101 1111110001 0101101001 1101100101 1001011001 1100010001 110111101 1111000101 1111010100 1011010001 0101010100 1111110101 01010101001 011100001 00101000101 11110001101 0101010101 1111000101 1101000101 11101101010 10010011110 10110010101 0101010101 01011100101 0111110111 11001000101 1001010111 1111110101 0111010110 01001100101 111110101 1101111101 1011010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101001101 1101110101 0101010111 1111000110 0101111101 11100011010 1101010101 1011101101 1111111101 1001010101 10010100001 11010111001 1111011101 110101011 111111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010001 1100110101 11110100111 1001010101 110110011101 1101010101 1101100101 1011000101 01010010101 0100110101 11011011001 11111100101 1111000100 1111110111 1110100101 1110010101 1111010101 1011100101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010100 11010100110 01111001010 1111010001 0111100101 1001110101 0101010101 0101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1111010101 01001010101 1101001101 1101011101 0111010111 0101101101 1101010101 0101110101 1101110101 1001010101 0101100101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 01001111101 101000101 1101010111 1110000110 11111101001 0101010101 1101001101 110010100001 1101010101 0101010111 1111010110 1111010001 1011111101 1101110100 0101111110 1101110101 1101100101 1111010101 1110010101 1010011101 1011110101 1101010101 1001110001 0101110011 1001010001 10010111001 11010101001 1111010001 0001010011 010001111 1101011101 011100101 1101000111 1101001101 0101010101 111001001 1001001101 0101110101 0101010100 0101000100 0101010100 1101000101 11010001001 11010001001 11010000101 1101110101 0101010101 11110010001 1101110101 1011101101 1111010101 0101111101 010010001 1101101101 1001011101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6785
- Average number of words per stanza: 1180
- Amount of lines: 159
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; their, and, to, this, all, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.
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- summary of On Happiness;
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