This is an analysis of Legends by Stephen Crane.

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A MAN builded a bugle for the storms to blow.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a XXX X XX X XXX X XX a XaX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,3,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,3,
  • Metre: 1 011001010101 01011101 11101001010 1 1010101101010111100 1011001101010 1 0111010 01100011101 1110111001100000 1 01001010110101 01011100101001011110 1 01110101110101 01001100101 10101110111111111101010111101010010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

thou, sang

Anaphora

a, the