This is an analysis of the poem More With Us Than With Them that begins with:
Alas! Elisha's servant cried,
When he the Syrian army spied,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbeeXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100101 110100101 11110101 01000101 10110101 01010001 010010101 1101011 11010101 11011111 11110111 01010111 01011111 01011111 10010101 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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