This is an analysis of the poem A Simple, Cheerful Active Life On Earth that begins with:
A simple, cheerful, active life on earth,
A cup I’d not exchange for monarch’s chalice,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefcgcg dfdfdddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 011110111110 0101110111 01010001110 0111010101 11011101010 0101011101 11011000110 1111111101 11001110010 11111100111 01110110010 1011011101 11110111010 1101000101 11010101010 11111101001 100101010010 1101011101 11010101010 0101010111 00110101010 0111010111 11110001000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, its, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, with, and are repeated.
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