This is an analysis of the poem Parson Turell’s Legacy that begins with:
OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X aaabbccdX cceeffeedddggggggg bbhhddaa aaabbccXd aaXijjkkgghhddllhhbXllmmXXggaabbccddiiddaaabbnnii oXaaaddjjiimmaammiinn mmooccpphhhXbb XXbbiiccbbaaqqaaggllccaaaa rrbbmmii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,9,18,8,9,49,21,14,26,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100111 01010010 10101111 1100100101 11100111 110100111 01101011001 10010111 11110001 11101111 1011101 1110111 11111111 100100101 10101111 1010111 111010101 11100101 110101101 10111011 10011101 11100101 1010101 1010111 1011011 00111111 0010101 100101001 1111101 010100100 100100101 1011101 1110101 10010111 1010101 1111111 10101001 1010111 10010101 0010101 1011101 1011101 1111101 110100101 110010101 011100111 10010111 010011111 1111101010 101101101 10100101 10010101 10110111 1011111 100100101 11100111 110111111 11010001 1101001010 1101001110 10100101 001010111 10011111 11110111 1111001011 0110101101 11001100101 11011111 10110101 111001101 111111101 1100111010 101001001 110101101 10100101 110011111 11100101 11110101 1010101 110100111 1110101 11111111 1010101 1110101111 110100101 110111101 11010101 101110101 111110101 1110101110 111101101 11100111 10100101 110111001 1100100101 110100111 111101111 010100101 01011101 100100111 010101101 1011111 11110111 11101101 1110101 1101100100 01111101 110010101 1111101 1011011001 111101101 111000111 10110101 11011111 1011010111 1100101101 101010101 111100111 0100100101 1010101101 10101101 11101101 01010100111 1010111101 1110101 1010111101 0100100111 1000010101 0100100111 101111111 11011110 110101101 0100101110 1100111111 010111111 1010011100 1011001111 1111111111 10110101 0111010101 110101001 110100101 0101101111 110100101 010101101 001110111 1101101 111011101 01110111 1111101101 110100101 111011101 1010100101 1100100111 11010101 1010110101 111100101 100100111 10101111 0100100111 0100011001 110111111 11101101101 11110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 563
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 164
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and, to, ye, it, you, as, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words born, when, and, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase that connects the lines.
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