Analysis of Happy Thought
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 01111101011 11111111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 96 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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