This is an analysis of the poem A Contented Mind that begins with:
I weigh not Fortune's frown or smile,
I joy not much in earthly joys;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdedeffgegegghihiee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 11110101 11111111 11110101 11110111 11111111 11110101 11011101 11110101 11110101 11111111 11011101 11010101 11110101 11110101 111010111 11011101 01011001 11110111 11110101 11110101 10110111 00011111 01100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 813
- Average number of words per stanza: 167
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, not, see are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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