This is an analysis of the poem The Heritage that begins with:
ON summer evenings when the full moon shines
Serene and fair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcXd dEdefffe gghhXifijajackck lglglhEehhaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,16,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010111 0111 100101 1111010101 10111101010 011100 1101011100010 110100 1111110100 1101010 110001 0111110 111111 0101010 1111010 1011010 111111 1101111111111 001001101001001 101101101110001 111001001001001 10011100 1011011 11110110 1011001 10110110 1101001 10111110 1011101 100011010 1011101 11010010 0101011 1101011011 100111 1111 10010111 11 10010111 110001 1101010111 100111 111111 1111110111 11110111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 396
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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- summary of The Heritage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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