This is an analysis of the poem The Silent Shearer that begins with:
Weary and listless, sad and slow,
Without any conversation, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dXde Xfaf gbgb hXeX abcX XfXX dddd hehX afaX bXbb hfhf efef bXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 01101010 1011110101 010011010 010101101 01100100100 110010111 001101010 110100110 0101010 111100101 101010110 11110101101 111001010 10100111101 101001010 101111011011 101001110 1011010101 01011010 1110100101 01001010 1111110101 1111010100 1011111100 011110110 110010100 11110101000 0010100101 01001010 101001101001 0100010 00110111101 110100010 1100110101 11001010 1101011101 101111010 1011011111 111110100 1010111111 101011000 1111110101 101001010 10100111011 101001010 011100111 1111010010 10010110101 11001110 111111101 11001110 10010111101 001110110 0100110111 110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, his, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for are repeated.
The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Silent Shearer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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