This is an analysis of "Fighting Mac" by Robert William Service.
A Life Tragedy
A pistol shot rings round and round the world;…
Browse poems by Robert William Service
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X ababbc cdcddeX fgfgghX XigiiXd hihiidd XaXaaaa cacaahh igiggccXehehhii
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- 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
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 65
Repeated words/phrases
alone, his, in, he, and
Anaphora
a, saw, the, he
Anadiplosis
eyes