This is an analysis of the poem Happy They Have Been Able To Please that begins with:
At one time,
People were complaining......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC def eeadgXX hgegcee ABC XXh eeiegX hX deXaifX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,7,3,3,6,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 100010 1010010010 01 1101010100 110111000101 1111100110 1010000100 111100 1011 11011110 101010 01011010100 101101 10010111110 11101111 0010011 100101 011011 11101010 111 100010 1010010010 10110111 01001010010 11010001 1010 111010100 11110 1101001 0110110101 1100101 110 1011100101 011 1111011 111 1011010 10110010 1110101 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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