This is an analysis of the poem Happy Marriage that begins with:

My life, like a sandbar,
has been taken over by a monster of a man...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcDeXaDdXDfgdhdgg fifjcXhXjebXXifhj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 1010101010001 1111010001 110110 111011 11101 111 110110 1111001 111010001 110110 11111 011101011 1111110 10100101 111110011 00101111 1111111 0100111 111111 0110111 10100100 1010101 1111111 1101111111 111010010 0101000010010 1110111111 110110110101 111101100111 11101 11111 1101101 0010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 571
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, my, would are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Happy Marriage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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