This is an analysis of the poem Happy Solitude--Unhappy Men that begins with:
My heart is easy, and my burden light;
I smile, though sad, when thou art in my sight:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ccdd ccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 1111111011 0111010101 1111011111 1101010101 1111011101 1101011101 01010100011 1101111100 1111011101 0111110101 0101010011 1101110101 1111110011 1101010101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my, i, and are repeated.
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