This is an analysis of the poem Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern that begins with:
Mr. Macklin takes his knife
And carves the yellow pumpkin face: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefeXfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 11010101 11111101 01111101 11010111 01011100 11011101 11011100 11010101 11010011 11001101 11011100 11011101 01110111 01110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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