This is an analysis of the poem Mack The Knife that begins with:
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac Xded efaf agegXefaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 1110101 10111101 1110101 10110011 1010101 10111101 1110101 10111110 1010101 11101010 0111101 00111010 0011101 01011011 1110101 01101011 1010101 11011010 0111101 10101010 1010101 10111011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Mack The Knife;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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