This is an analysis of the poem The Eight Formations that begins with:
Your achievements overshadowed
any in the Three Kingdoms;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1000110 110011101 101010 010101 11100100 0100011001 11001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Eight Formations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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