This is an analysis of the poem The Anactoria Poem that begins with:

Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers,
others call a fleet the most beautiful of ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabb cdea fgfe egcX Xdfe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010011110 10101011000 10111011101 10111 10100101011 10111101110 10101001000 10110 11101001011 10101101110 10101001011 10010 10101111010 10111011010 0110111011 1100000 11111101010 101001101111 1010100011001 10010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; say, her, and are repeated.

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