This is an analysis of the poem Happy The Man that begins with:
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110101 11110101 11010111 011111111101 01111111 011101010111 110010101110 1110101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, or, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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