This is an analysis of the poem The Mackaiad that begins with:
Mackay's hot wrath to Bonynge, direful spring
Of blows unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffeegghhccggcXXcii ddjjggXeeeccbXjjXdkkeeeX XdddggffeeiiXiccccllcc mmaaggbbbX eeiiccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,20,24,22,10,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101101010001 011000100101 1111010101 1101000101 11011101001 1101110111 11111101010 11010011010 1011010101 1101000101 1011110101 0101010101 0101000101 1101010111 1101010001 0101010011 1111010111 11010011101 10010010101 11010101001 0101110101 010110101 0110010101 0111010101 0111010110 1001010001 1011110111 10011000101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010001 1101011101 1011110101 1101010101 1100010111 1110010101 10110010001 1111111111 0101111101 0100010011 0111011111 11110101010 1111010011 1100011111 10011010010 1100001101 1011010101 1101110101 1101110101 1101011101 1101101010 11001101100 11011101100 0110000101 0111011001 1001110101 0101110101 1100010001 1001010101 0101110101 1101010101 1010010001 10110101010 10010010110 0111000111 0111101001 1101010101 10001010101 0100010001 0101010101 0101111111 0101001101 1101001111 0101010011 1001000101 0101110001 1101011001 1101110001 0101010001 0101011101 0101010101 1011010101 01010101010 01010101010 11010110001 0111011001 1111110001 1111010101 0101010001 0101110001 0101001000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; his, and, to, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, the, o are repeated.
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- summary of The Mackaiad;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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