This is an analysis of the poem Happiness that begins with:
There is a voice that calls to me; a voice that cries deep down;
That calls within my heart of hearts when Summer doffs her crown:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbab ccddcd eeaaea ffaafaXbbffbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10011101011111 11011101110101 11010111110111 01000101111101 01110101010111 01010111010101 10010111010111 11011101111111 11011111110101 11010111111101 10010111010001 10110101110111 010001010100101 11011101110101 11010111100101 01111111010101 11011001011101 11010111100101 01011111110101 11011101110101 11010111111111 01110101110101 11010111010101 11011101010110 11000110110111 01111101010111 01011111110111 01011101110101 10011111010111 11011101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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 Happiness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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