This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of Evil that begins with:
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This is the sorrowful story... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcDc eaXa eece cfcf XXcc cgeg Xhch cfeX bcDc X bfdf Xgfg XXcX XcXc XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 00010010 110111 10101010 101101 101010010 101001 1110010 0101001 101010010 1101001 11010010 1101001 101010010 100111 1011110 1100111 100010010 0111011 1001110 11111001 10111110 101111 1010010 100101 10001010 100101 1001110 101101 11110110 100101 11110010 11101110 00010010 110111 10101010 101101 1 110111010111110 110101010101001 110101010111110 11100101010001 110111011011000 11111100010101 10010111110101111 1011111001010101 1011111011110010 101000101010101 1010100101111010 110110011111010100 11101000101011010 01001100110011 1111001011101010 01010101100011 01010101101100 10111010101011000 1010111010010111 11101010111010000
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; our, fathers, and, them, to, an', you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, divil, an', the are repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase they connects the lines.
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- summary of The Legend Of Evil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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