This is an analysis of the poem The Happiest Day that begins with:
It was early May, I think
a moment of lilac or dogwood...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabacbdeXeXfXacfbcdXXXXaXdbXcfaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 010011111 111010011 01010001110 110110110 0011100100 101011110 101101110 111011 11001110001 11001011 10110011 111111 11010 110100010 11010111110 0110101111 11001111 101110 101110 111101 0011010 1100101001 111101011 111010111 1110101000 10101111110 0111101001 01111010100 1111110 0111110 1010100010 1001111111 1100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1173
- Average number of words per stanza: 225
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
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- summary of The Happiest Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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