This is an analysis of the poem The Happy Shepherd that begins with:
Thrice, oh, thrice happy, shepherd's life and state!
When courts are happiness' unhappy pawns!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXccc ddddaaa bbbbbbb eaeabbb ffffeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010111 1111000101 0101110101 1111000111 111010101 1011011101 011100110101 11001111011 1111011101 0111110101 1011100101 1101110111 1101010101 111011110011 01010111001 1101011110 0101110101 1111010101 01010101110 11111001010 1101011100010 01011101011 0101011110 011010001011 0101110101 0101010101 0101110101 111111110111 0101111101 1101010111 0101000101 0101000101 10010111011 11110101111 1111110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, his are repeated.
The author used the same word his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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- summary of The Happy Shepherd;
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- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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