This is an analysis of the poem The Greeks Planned For War that begins with:
The Greeks planned for war
On the delightful island of Salamis....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX abXX XXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 10010100010 00100101110 1101001 11110100 110111 100010101 0110101 110110 100100110 11110101 010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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