This is an analysis of the poem A Legacy that begins with:
No living atom comes at last to naught!
Active in each is still the eternal Thought:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabba ccbccbb bdccdeXbccbbbdffXaaghhghheeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 10010100101 1101001101 10001111001 1101010101 0101010001 1001010111 1101110101 1111010101 01110110101 1101010101 11010111001 1101111101 1111010101 01110111001 1111110101 1101110101 1001011101 1111110100 1100110010 1011011101 0101010101 1101010001 1001010101 0101010111 1010001111 1100111111 1101010011 0101011101 1101010100 1101110111 1011010101 1111110101 1111010001 11010010111 1111010101 1100010101 0101110110 01110000111 1101111101 0110011100 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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- summary of A Legacy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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