This is an analysis of the poem The Happy Man that begins with:
He's not the happy man, to whom is given
A plenteous fortune by indulgent Heaven;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXbbbbbbbeebbbbeeffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101010 01010101010 1101110101 1101010101 1101011001 11010010001 11011101001 111011101 11010101010 10110111001 0111010101 0101000101 11011101001 1011110101 1101011101 1111110101 10111011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101001001 11011001001 0101110101 1101010101 1101000101 11001010101 1101010001 1111000101 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1261
- Average number of words per stanza: 211
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whose is repeated.
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