This is an analysis of the poem Little Mack that begins with:
This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh,
We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O gosh!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdbD eeffbbdgd bbhhXhdXd iijXeXdjD jjeekkdXd ggllbbdkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100110101 11010100110111 11101001010111 01010101111101 101010101010101 010100101010101 11010101110101 11011101 0101 01010101110101 10100101010101 11011101110101 110100100010001 01000101010101 110001001011001 0100010011101 00110010 0101 110101000111000 111111001100001 01000101010011 01010101100101 0101010110101 11000101110101 11100101110101 01010101 1101 110111010100111 11010101010101 0101001010101110 110100110101000 110101110101010 010101110111010 11010100010101 11011100 0101 110101000111010 110100110100010 11010101110101 101010101010101 11000100011011 11001100110101 1101010110111 10101010 1101 11010101010101 010101111010101 11111101110010 11010001010111 111101011100101 01010101110101 111101010101001 11010110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, it, and, from, full are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from, who's are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mack at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Little Mack;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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