This is an analysis of the poem To Laugh Often And Much that begins with:

To laugh often and much;

to win the respect of the intelligent people
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXcdabdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011 0100100010010 10010010 0100101001010 1010010011 0010110 0101010 01010110 10101010101 100110010 0111111100 01111 0001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 449
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • 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; to, of, 
 are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

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  • summary of To Laugh Often And Much;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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