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

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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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