This is an analysis of the poem Shearer’s Song that begins with:
The season is over;
The shearing is done;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabXbXXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010 01001 010111 01110 110010 110110 111010 11001 011010 01101 1010010 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Shearer’s Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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