This is an analysis of the poem The Shearers that begins with:
No church-bell rings them from the Track,
No pulpit lights theirblindness--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXcdceXeXXXXc afbXgfXf bcbXgdfd dhdhgbeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110001 1101100 11011100 1111010 010010101 0111110 011101001 0110010 11011101 1110010 11010111 1101111 110111011 110100100 1101111010 1101110 11110111 1111111 01111001 111101010 110100111 0100110 11110111 1111011 11001101 0101010 11011011 0101000100 110101101 1111010 11010101 1110110 11110001 1101010 11111101 1101110 11110001 0101110 10111101 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, man, or, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the, they, and are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Shearers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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