This is an analysis of The Legacy by Henry King.
My dearest Love! when thou and I must part,
And th' icy hand of death shall seize that heart…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggffhXXhaaiijjbXccXXXcddddkkllddeefXaakkmmmmkkhX
- Stanza lengths: 60,
- Metre: 1101111111 11101011111 1011011100 1111110001 1101001101 1101110001 1110010111 1011011101 1101011101 1101001101 1101110101 0101010101 1111011101 1011010111 1001110101 1001010101 1101010111 1101010011 001101100 1111110100 1111111111 1110110101 11010101001 1101111011 0101111101 1101111100 11001001111 1111011100 1111011011 11011001001 1101011011 1101110001 1111011011 101111111 1111010101 1101110011 1011011101 0111010011 1101101111 1111010011 1111010101 1101000101 10010010101 1111110101 1100110101 0101010101 0110110101 1110110010 10010011001 10011110100 1011011101 0111010101 1101010101 1111111101 11111111001 1101111111 1001010101 1101101101 1011111011 111001110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
to, my, i
