This is an analysis of the poem The Joyous Malingerer that begins with:
Who is the happy husband? Why, indeed,
'Tis he who's useless in the time of need;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccaa ddbbaa eeaaffXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 1111000101 110100101010 100001001010010 1101010111 1001010001 0101110001 1011110101 111001001010 11111101010 0101011101 1101110111 110101000001 1111111101 1101000101 11010100101 11010001010 11010001010 11010101010 01010100010 1101010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, with are repeated.
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