This is an analysis of the poem The Legacy that begins with:
My dearest Love! when thou and I must part,
And th' icy hand of death shall seize that heart ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggffhXXhaaiijjbXccXXXcddddkkllddeefXaakkmmmmkkhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111111 11101011111 1011011100 1111110001 1101001101 1101110001 1110010111 1011011101 1101011101 1101001101 1101110101 0101010101 1111011101 1011010111 1001110101 1001010101 1101010111 1101010011 001101100 1111110100 1111111111 1110110101 11010101001 1101111011 0101111101 1101111100 11001001111 1111011100 1111011011 11011001001 1101011011 1101110001 1111011011 101111111 1111010101 1101110011 1011011101 0111010011 1101101111 1111010011 1111010101 1101000101 10010010101 1111110101 1100110101 0101010101 0110110101 1110110010 10010011001 10011110100 1011011101 0111010101 1101010101 1111111101 11111111001 1101111111 1001010101 1101101101 1011111011 111001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2600
- Average number of words per stanza: 481
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, my, i are repeated.
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