This is an analysis of the poem A Servian Legend that begins with:
Long, long ago, ere yet our race began,
When earth was empty, waiting still for man,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aabb ccdd XXeX fgfg XXaa cXhh hehX ijij dkdk gggX jhjh jjhh jjaa jjee eeaaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111101 1111010111 01010101110 01010001010 11110010101 1101111111 1001010101 1101001101 11010101101 1101010011 1001010101 0101010011 0101111101 01101110101 1001010101 1011001101 110010011010 0101011110 11101111110 11111100101 11001100101 1101010111 1101010111 1111100101 1100011001 11110101001 1011010111 11111101001 110010100010 1001010111 01111111010 01001110111 1101100101 1101010101 1101010001 11001010001 1101010101 0101110101 1100010001 0101010101 0101010111 1100011001 0001010101 1010111111 1111010001 1101110111 0101110101 01011101001 1111110101 1101010101 11000100101 11010101001 1101111001 110110100101 1111110101 1101010001 0101110111 10011101001 1111010111 11110100100 0101010001 1101110101 1001010101 1101011111 1101010101 10101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Servian Legend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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