This is an analysis of the poem Mad that begins with:
O ye who push and fight
To hear a wanton sing... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb aaaa cbcb aXac cdcd ecec fgfg egeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 010101 110001 110101 110100 010101 011011 110001 111101 110101 010101 110101 110111 110111 011101 010011 110101 011001 010111 010111 110101 010101 1110101 011001 110101 110101 010101 110101 111101 110101 010101 110111 1000101 0101101 110111 10011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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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- summary of Mad;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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