This is an analysis of the poem The Legacy that begins with:
When in death I shall calmly recline,
O bear my heart to my mistress dear, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc Xdbdaeae Xcecfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111001 111101101 100101111 0010110101 101111010 0100111011 1101001111 010100111 101011010 111101101 10111101 110100101 101111010 0101101001 1111001010 110110101 1011011000 011101011 1011001010 111101101 111101010 001011101 1111001110 110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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