This is an analysis of the poem My Legacy that begins with:
My friend has gone away from me
From shadow into perfect light, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbC abc cba abcXabAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01100011 11001100 11110101 0101111 01011100 01001100 01010101 10110101 11110110 01010001 100111100 11110101 11110111 11110101 11001100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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