This is an analysis of the poem Maccracken that begins with:
GETTING his pictures, like his supper, cheap,
Far, far away in Belfast by the sea, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcddcXebaaeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1001010101 1101011101 0101110001 10010101 1101011101 11000100111 1101011101 11011011101 1101110100 11010101001 111111101 10011110001 111011111 1111110001 010101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 664
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
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