This is an analysis of the poem A Legend Of Service that begins with:
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!)
To hear, one day, report from those who came... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeffgghhffeX iiffjjbbbbcCbbeXggee bbffaaeeeecCkkbXdd eefflleeffcCggjjmmcXcX iieebbffcCdX eecXeebXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,20,18,22,12,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 0111010111 01001010101 0101010001 1101011111 01010011111 1101011111 01011101101 11010100101 0101010101 1111110101 1101000101 10001010111 1100110101 10011010101 10111010101 10101000101 10111011101 10101111101 10101011100 10111100101 101111111110 1101010011 0101111101 101001010111 10111111101 101001110101 10001110110 100011010111 10111100111 10111010001 10111110101 10100010111 10001010101 10111010111 10111110011 10101011101 101110111010 1001010101 0100100101 11110100101 11011101101 1001011101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 11011011101 1001010101 0101111101 1101010111 0101110101 0101110111 10001010101 1011100110101 1111110101 0111111101 110101110100 1100010111 0101100111 0101011101 01000110101 1101110101 0101010101 1001011101 0101010011 0101111101 1101110001 1101011101 0111110101 1101110111 10001010101 1011100010101 1011010001 0101010001 01001000101 0101010101 0101111011 01100101 110101110100 1101011101 010101101110 1111010101 0111011111 1101011111 11010010101 0101110111 110010101001 0101101001 1101010101 1111011111 10001010101 1011100110101 010101011100 0101010111 11010101001 1101010001 110101010010 10111010101 10111011111 10111010101 10101110111 1101011111 101011100110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.
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