This is an analysis of the poem The Legatee that begins with:
In fair San Francisco a good man did dwell,
And he wrote out a will, for he didn't feel well.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX bXXX ccdd eebb XXbb ccXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01101000101 111100111011 11101011001 01011011001 111101001011 0110010010010 101101001111 11101001100 01101101001 11101011001 11001011001 01001001001 01001001011 11001001101 11011011011 01001001001 11101001011 01011101011 11011001001 11101001001 11111101011 01001001111 010010010010 111001111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Legatee;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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