This is an analysis of the poem Legend that begins with:
THERE is an hour, they say,
On which your dream has power:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXaXddab dceaXdecbdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 1111110 111111 110111 100101 1011011 110011 011101 011111 011101 1011010 011001 1110101 011001 111111 100111 01001 101111 110111 1101010 011110 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the are repeated.
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- summary of Legend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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