This is an analysis of the poem The Face That Launch'D A Thousand Ships that begins with:
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXaXcdXdXaXbXXcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110101 1101010010 11011010001 0111111101 1101111101 10111100011 1101101100 1001011101 0101110001 1101001100 1111011101 1101010001 1101010101 1111010101 1001000101 1011110100 1101010101 1101011001 01010001001 1111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 816
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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