This is an analysis of the poem One Happy Moment that begins with:
NO, no, poor suff'ring Heart, no Change endeavour,
Choose to sustain the smart, rather than leave her;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc ddeeffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111010 10010110110 110010111010 11100111010 11010001110 01110101110 01110111111 10110111011 11011111001 11011110010 11110111010 10110101010 10110101011 11111111111 11110111010 11110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; her, no, of, me, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, me, us are repeated).
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