This is an analysis of the poem Happiness (Reconsidered) that begins with:
Happiness
Is a clean bill of health from the doctor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXc adXec aeXXXbdXcXcacacXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 0011010010 101101111 1101 1110100101011 00111010 100 0100101100 11011010110 1111001111010 11111010010 111001 111011110 100101101 111001011010 010011101011 11001001011011 111001011011 1011 01111001001111 111001010010110 11111001001011 1110110111011 111010011110 01111100 111101 1010100 11000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; in, and, my are repeated.
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