This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of The Horseshoe that begins with:
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth,
Unknown, despised, of humble birth,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeX XbbbXXeeccXcffggbb ffffbbeeddff cccchhggbbddffbbffbbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,18,12,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 01010101 1111001010 011101010 01010111 01010101 110101100 11010100 0100011 01010101 11000111 0100110 111101110 01010111 01010101 01011101 10110111 1010101100 11011101 11010101 01001100 01111110 10011111 01010101 11011111 10011100 11011010 110110110 11110101 10111111 01100111 01110111 11011011 11111101 01010101 110101101 11010111 11010101 010011110 110101010 11110110 10010101 11110101 101110101 11111101 01110111 01010101 01010111 01110101 11010101 11010101 11110101 010101010 011101010 11110101 11011101 01110111 01110011 10110111 01110101 101111111 10010101 01111101 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; as, thou are repeated.
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- summary of The Legend Of The Horseshoe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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