This is an analysis of the poem We Are Not Always Glad When We Smile that begins with:
We are not always glad when we smile:
Though we wear a fair face and are gay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abccbadeed Aeffedgbbg AheehhXiiA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111 111011111 101101 111001 111001001 11001001 100011001 111101 111001 111001011 111111111 101001001 11001 001001 101111001 101001011 11101001 11001 001001 11101011 111111111 101001001 101011 111001 01001001 11011011 101011010 01001 001101 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; we, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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