This is an analysis of the poem The Shafter Shafted that begins with:
Well, James McMillan Shafter, you're a Judge
At least you were when last I knew of you;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbaccdedeedff gbgbbgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1110111101 1001011111 1011001101 0101000101 0100010111 010100100010 11010101010 1001110011 1111000101 1111010011 0101011101 0101010111 0100010101 01000001010 11010111010 1101111111 0100011101 1111111111 1110010101 1101110011 1101010011 11001110110 01011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Shafter Shafted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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