This is an analysis of the poem "Fighting Mac" that begins with:
A Life Tragedy
A pistol shot rings round and round the world;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababbc cdcddeX fgfgghX XigiiXd hihiidd XaXaaaa cacaahh igiggccXehehhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01100 0101111101 01000101001 0101001101 0111010111 0111011101 1111111111 0101110101 0011101101 1001010101 1001010101 1001010101 10111111101 010001011000 0111010101 0111010101 1101011101 10101010101 1101010111 10010010101 1110111101 10011001010 1101010111 1101110101 0110110101 1101110111 100010111010 110101101 1101011101 11110010101 1101010101 1101011111 0101001111 1111110111 1101111001 1101010010 11011011101 0101010100 1100010101 1001100101 0101110111 1101011101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010111 10110010101 01010100101 1111101011 1100010001 01001011011 1101011111 0100010101 0101010101 0111010111 0101010001 1101010101 1111010101 1111011101 0111111001 11110010101 0111111101 0100010101 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 65
- 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; alone, his, in, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, saw, the, he are repeated.
The author used the same words a, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase eyes connects the lines.
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- summary of "Fighting Mac";
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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