This is an analysis of the poem One Of The Saints that begins with:
Big Smith is an Oakland School Board man,
And he looks as good as ever he can;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccdddaacceecXfffXfXgghhbbeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111 1111011011 1110110111 111110111 0100111001 010010101 1011101111 1010100101 01011001011 1101100101 010010101 100100101 001110111 1111010011 100010111 10110110101 1111101111 001011101 00100001011 1110100101 100011011 1101001011 11011111 111110111 111110111 1111100101 110110111 100100101 0010111101 0101011001 010101101 10100100101 0011110110 110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1350
- Average number of words per stanza: 267
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of One Of The Saints;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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