This is an analysis of the poem Remaining Happy that begins with:
No stories left,
Do I have an urgency......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXd AXacX aeebe eXacX cAcdXXccacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101 1111100 00100101 010101010 10100100 1101 1110111001 0010101 001001001 10100010 1011101110101 1110100010011011 10101101111 0101000100 110101010001 11011110111 10001 11110101010111 01000101 00110111001101 100101010101111 1101 111110000100101 01010101010100100 11110100100100010 10101101 110111010111 0101010101 110111001 110011101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, with, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Remaining Happy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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