This is an analysis of the poem Fortune Smiles that begins with:
Fortune smiles, cry holiday,
Dimples on her cheeks do dwell,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXcacdDD DeeD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1010111 1011100 010100101 1101101010 1010111 1101101001 1111101 1010111 11111100 11010100 11010100 111100100100 01111011 1011111 111100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; her, and, merrily, let are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sing is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines deity is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase holiday connects the lines.
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