This is an analysis of the poem Count It All As Joy that begins with:
Count it all as joy!
Even the pain of living, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcadedaaaaA XfA XgXgA fdccA hXeecA hcbhca hdcidcXhfa dXc XdfiXcXhXXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,3,5,5,6,6,10,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 1001010 101101 110100 00111 100111 1 1011 00101 001101 01100111 10111 0101010010 111101100 10111 0101110 101001 1111010 10101101 10111 010111 10100010 1110101 01011010 10111 10111 0100111 10101011 1100011 001101 10111 1011010 10111101 11010 0010010 1011100101 10111 0101100110 01 1111010 1010101010 101100100010 1111 011101 0101100 0110 110111 1000 1010100 100100 1110 010011110010 001110010100010 0010101011010 11010110101011 111101111111 101011010000100 111010010101 0101001011110101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, you are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word joy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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