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 …
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
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Epiphora