This is an analysis of the poem Mac Flecknoe: A Satire Upon The True-Blue Protestant Poet T that begins with:

All human things are subject to decay,
And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccccaaeeafXdggaaafhhaXaaiibbaajjccggkkggbblliiggXkkaall llccXeeemmllaaakkeeeehhdddnndd hhccaaiiaallllccddiihhddllggaabbllaaoooolllll hhhhhhddafccjjccddllhhiieegghhggiieeccllhhXdhhnnaallggXdccmmcceeiilleecclllllcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 63,30,45,79,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101101001 1111011101 011110101 11010011101 0111110101 1101011101 011110001 1101000101 1101001101 0100010001 1101010111 0111010101 1101110111 1101110101 1001101101 0101000100 1001011101 1101010100 0101110110 11010101001 1101110111 1111010100 11010010111 0101010101 0101010101 1101110100 1011111101 11010110001 1111001101 1111001000 10101010111 1101100111 11001010101 0101001101 11001011101 1011010011 11011011001 1111011111 0111010101 1001010101 1101010011 0111010101 101101101 01110010111 1111010101 0101110101 1001010101 1101110101 0111010101 1101011101 01110101001 1111001101 1101111101 1101011101 1101010101 1111100011 1101010010 0111110101 1111111001 11001101111 01010000101 1100110101 1101010111 1001110101 0101010101 1101011001 1101110001 01101111110 0101110101 0011010101 1011100101 1111010101 1101110101 1101000101 1111110101 11001010111 1101110101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1100100101 1101010101 111010111 0100010101 1101010111 1001110101 1101011101 0111011101 1101000111 10011010101 1101001101 1101110001 0101010101 1101010101 01111101001 1101011001 1101010101 0101010101 10011100001 1111010011 1101011101 1100110101 1100110001 0101010001 1101001101 1011111001 1101110001 0111010101 1101010101 1100000101 11010010101 1101110101 1111110101 1001011101 1011011101 0101010101 1111011111 0010010101 1101010101 1100011001 1101010101 11010111001 1011010101 01010100101 1101010101 1111010111 10111100101 1100111101 1001011101 1001110001 11000101001 01011010001 10011001001 11010010111 0100010101 1111000101 101110100111 0110010101 0001011101 1101010001 0111011101 1111010101 1101011101 1011001100 0111011101 1011110100 110001001 1111011101 1101010101 1100011101 1101010101 1011010101 1111110101 1101110101 1001111101 01010101101 1101010101 1101110011 1111011001 11011100101 11110010101 0101110101 111100100111 1101111001 1111111011 1101010001 1101100111 1111010001 1111011101 1100010011 1101101101 1101001101 1111110111 1111010101 1001110101 1111101101 1111011001 1101010101 1111011111 1001110001 1001010101 1111010101 1101111101 0111011101 0011001101 1100011111 0011010011 1111010101 1111011111 1011011110 1111010110 01010010001 0101011101 11111010001 1111010101 1101111101 01001111101 10010110101 01010011101 0111110111 1101110101 011011101 1101111101 1101001001 1111011101 1101111101 1011110101 1111110011 1110110101 1111010101 1111011001 1011010101 11010001001 0101001101 0101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2425
  • Average number of words per stanza: 415
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, from, thy, and, should, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, sir are repeated.

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