This is an analysis of the poem Aims At Happiness that begins with:
HOW oft has sounded whip and wheel,
How oft is buckled spur to heel,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccccddee ffgghhddhhggiiXXggffX iiffaaXejjffaaiXddhh iikkkaallaa XgiiffggaammffkkkknnggjjaagX ddiimmddggffffggaaccmmmddffffjjffaa ggkkmmggggff aaggccffmmaaffXhhggaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,21,20,11,28,35,12,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110111 11010101 110010111 11010111 110010101 11010101 11010101 01011101 110011101 11111001 01010111 11111101 11111101 11010101 1011010101 1101111101 10010100101 0111010001 1101010111 1101110111 1101010101 1101111101 1101011101 0101000101 1111001111 1011011101 1011100101 0101010111 1111011101 101111111011 1101010001 11111110111 1101010101 1101011111 1101011101 1101110001 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101001110 1111110101 01010100101 0111010001 0101110101 0111110101 0101010101 1101010101 11001110101 010111101011 01010100101 10001111101 1111111111 1111110111 1111110111 0101011101 0011111111 1101010111 1111110101 1111010110 0101011101 01010101110 11010111010 1111010101 1011010101 10111100010 1001101001 1110110111 1101110101 11111111001 1011001101 0111100101 0111010101 01111100101 1100010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101011101 0100100110 1101110111 0111110111 1101010101 1101100111 1111111101 0101011101 1111011110 0101000101 0101111101 0101000101 1101010111 0101011101 1101010111 11110111111 1111010101 1101010101 1101010111 1011010101 0101110101 11010101001 0100110101 0111111101 0101010101 0101010101 0111010101 01001011101 1101110001 1111110001 11010010101 1101011111 1001110101 0111111111 1111111111 1101010011 1101010101 1111111101 01010001001 0101100101 1111010101 01010010101 0101010101 0101010101 01001100101 0101110101 1010010101 1001010101 0101001101 110010010101 1111011101 1101011111 0111011111 1101110011 1001001111 1111110100 1101010101 0001010101 0101111111 1001010101 1101110101 1111111101 0100110101 1111011101 1111010111 1111010111 1111011100 01010011001 0111010101 0101011101 11010010001 1011001101 1001000101 1011000101 11001010101 0101010001 0101010011 1011110101 1101110111 0101110001 1101011111 1111010101 1111011101 11010001010 10010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 779
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 163
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; how, ', i, and, there, he, they, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, and, the, a are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Aims At Happiness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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