This is an analysis of the poem On What Is Best that begins with:
Some celebrate the beauty
of knights, or infantry, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbacXc dadaeeXe fbXbfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 011100 1100100 110101 111010 111101 1101010 011111 1100010 010100 1101010 110100 0111010 010101 0101110 110101 1110010 111101 1111110 110101 0100010 111101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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