This is an analysis of the poem An Intentional Attack that begins with:
People primarily,
Know what they do through gossip....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100 1111110 0001000100 101110110 01010010 10011 010101101 110001010001 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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 An Intentional Attack;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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