This is an analysis of the poem The Happy Man that begins with:
How bless'd the man, how fully so,
As far as man is bless'd below,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeecceebbeebbbbbbaa ddffbbccXbggbbffddhh aaffbbhhbbiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,20,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11110101 11010101 01010101 01010001 11010001 01000101 01100101 11010101 01010101 11010101 10010101 11110101 01010101 110101010 010101010 11010101 1101101 01010101 11011101 1110101 11011101 01010101 010101001 01010101 11010101 11010101 1010101 11010101 11011101 01011001 00110101 11010101 01001101 11111101 01010101 11011101 11001101 11110001 01011101 110101001 01010101 10010101 11010101 01011101 01110101 11011101 01011101 11011101 01010101 0101101 10110101 11010101 01110101 11111101 01011101 01010111 11000101 11111111 010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; his, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, and, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Happy Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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