This is an analysis of the poem Those Who Fought For The Achaean League that begins with:

Valiant are you who fought and fell gloriously;
fearless of those who were everywhere victorious....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111000 1001101010100 1010011100011 101101 101011110101 01111000011 1001010011010 001010100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Those Who Fought For The Achaean League;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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