This is an analysis of the poem Their Greatest Achievements that begins with:
The tragedy is not in the aftermath,
When ruins are created to be experienced....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaXb bccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000100101 1101010000100 010001000010 010111010000010 1101001010 0101 1011001111 0100001000110010 11010110100 1010001101001 111001 100100100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Their Greatest Achievements;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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