Analysis of Happy the man
John Dryden 1631 (Aldwincle) – 1631 (London)
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010101 11110111 11010111 01111111101 11111111 011101011111 110010101110 1111110111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 329 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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