Happiness (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Kenyon
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Emotions, Christianity, Parables, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Happiness
The Poem
“Happiness” is a short poem in free verse. Its thirty-one lines are arranged in five symmetrical stanzas containing four, eight, seven, eight, and four lines respectively. The last is a quasi stanza, emanating from a dropped line in the previous stanza. Dramatic intensity builds and then subsides; the central stanza is the keystone, carrying the poem’s rhythmic and thematic weight. The lines of the first and last stanzas are similar in length and meter, with three or four stresses per line. The three middle stanzas are more irregular, containing lines with five...
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