This is an analysis of The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour by Edgar Allan Poe.
The happiest day- the happiest hour
My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abab Xcbc dede Abab abab Xfdf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01001010010 11110111 010101110 1111 010111111 11110101 01001110 1101 11111101 0101110010 01011111 01110 01001010010 11111101 010101110 1110 101101110 110001 1011111010 111101 11011111 110101 110100001 011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
