This is an analysis of the poem Sad Is The Laughter that begins with:
Sad is the laughter,
Heard from a broken heart....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEFBD AbbgXbhg fbib FJHbig ABCDEFBD FfJHXXXf cdXcXeXXjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,6,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010 100101 1111010 0101 010001 0111 11101 1001001 10010 111 010001001 10111000 101011 101001 11100010111 111101001010 010101101 11001 10100010 10010111 010101101 1010100101 1101000101001 01110010101 11010010100 110101111010 10010 100101 1111010 0101 010001 0111 11101 1001001 010101101 0100100111 1010100101 1101000101001 011010 010010111 1101 10101 1011101 1010100110 11101000 1110 110011101 1 11110011 11 11101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same words sad, below at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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