This is an analysis of the poem Macer : A Character that begins with:
When simple Macer, now of high renown,
First fought a Poet's Fortune in the Town,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaabbddee cXfffXaaaXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1101010001 11101001111 0111010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101110101 1001111011 11111111010 11010101010 1101111111 0101110111 1111111101 1001011101 1111011101 1001111100 1011011001 1100010101 1101010101 1101100100 0001011101 0111110101 1101010101 1011010100 1101110111 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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