This is an analysis of To Laugh Often And Much by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

To laugh often and much;

to win the respect of the intelligent people
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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcXcdabdXX
  • Stanza lengths: 13,
  • Metre: 011011 0100100010010 10010010 0100101001010 1010010011 0010110 0101010 01010110 10101010101 100110010 0111111100 01111 0001010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

to, of, 


Anaphora

to

Epiphora