This is an analysis of the poem A Happiness By Any Other Name that begins with:
Nothing appearing on my top ten list,
Prioritizes you......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX XXcX dbeeb c ccX Xad ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,5,1,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011111 010101 10100101 111110101 10111011 10001011 10100010111 111 101010111 1011001001 010100 11110011 1111011010010 0011100111 0110001 111101010 001110 001011 011101 0100110101 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Happiness By Any Other Name;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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