This is an analysis of the poem The Only Way To Happiness that begins with:
The only way to happiness,
Is the one you create to make....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdefag ABCD eX hXgX eX chf ABCDADABAId ABADABAIXdcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,2,4,2,3,11,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100 00110101 11111001 001010101 10100010110 11001011 001101 01101 01010100 00110101 11111001 0010100101 111101110 111101110 1111101001 0111 10111011101 110110110101 111101110 111101110 111110101 1111010 011111011 01010100 00110101 11111001 0010100101 101 10100111 101 1010011 101 10101100010 010110110101 01010100 00110101 101 10100111 101 1010011 101 10101100010 010110111 111001 01101111 00100111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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, you, keep are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Only Way To Happiness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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