This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of Mirth that begins with:
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell,
Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccaaddcc eeccfXbbgXhX XbccijbbbkkbX ffeellXebbbbeebbccffbb bbaaaaabbcccc ccmmhhbbbXggccXhhjiccmmaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,13,22,13,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010101 1011001010 101010101011 1101010101 1101000101 110010100101 1111110101 1111011101 11111101110 10100011010 11010101001 01111100111 1101010111 11011100111 010110101101 01110110111 1001010101 1111011101 0101110101 010110001110 100100010101 1011111101 1000010111 11001101110 1111100111 101011111010 1011010100 0101010111 1011000101 01001010011 1111010111 1111010100 1101010101 011110100101 011010000111 1111010111 01101111001 1001010001 011101011110 10111110101 0101000101 1101110101 1100101100 0101010101 10001010100 1101010110 1100011101 1001010101 1001010001 0101010101 1111111101 1111010101 0101010101 1001000101 0101010101 1101001101 0111010111 1011011101 1101000101 1101010111 0100010001 1101010111 1110010011 1101110111 10010100011 1001111111 1001010011 1101010101 1101001111 110010101001 0101010101 0101110111 1101011101 0101011111 11010010111 1101000101 1011010101 10010100111 010100101 1100011111 1001010111 11010000101 1101010101 11110111100 1011110001 1001010111 11010010101 1011010101 11110101101 1111010111 11001110100 0101010101 1101011101 0111010001 1101110101 0111110101 11110101110 11110101010 1001010101 0101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; their, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tales connects the lines.
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- summary of The Legend Of Mirth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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