This is an analysis of the poem The Silent Member that begins with:
He lived in Mundaloo, and Bill McClosky was his name,
But folks that knew him well had little knowledge of that same; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeXX ffgg hhii jjkk aajj gghh eell ggii mmhh eebb Xjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010011010101 11111111010011 1110010111111101 111110100010101 111110010010101 001001101110101 101000101011101 111010101110001 11111011000111111 111010011111111 111011101110111 101110101110111 11110101110101 111010101010111 001000100011101 101001100010101 11110101111101 01110101010111 11110111111111 01111101010101 111010101111111 101010101110101 101110101110101 111010101010101 01110101010101 111010111110101 11011101010101 11011100110101 01011101111111 111111010110101 111111111110111 01011001110101 110011001100111 11110111111111 111110111110101 11010101110101 11111101110101 111010101111101 111110101010101 111111100010101 11010101110101 11111111110101 11011101111101 11110100010111 01010101111101 1101011111011 01110101010101 111110101111101 11010111111111 11010011011101 111110101010101 11110101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, or, we, knew are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, he'd are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Silent Member;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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