This is an analysis of the poem Keep Your Mouth Shet that begins with:
That 's me ! But nobody knows it,
Er's onto the racket but me ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aX aa Xa b c ac ad bd b e ff fg bg b X h i hg id i e XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 11001011 1100111111 1111111 110110001 1010110 11001111 01111110 101011001 111101011 11001101 1111111 11011011 101110010 1110000101 01111110 11010111 1111001 11111101 11111101 11111010 01101101 11010110 11001001 111111101 11101111 11101011 11011101 110010111 111110110 111111011 111110110 11111111 011110110 11101111 110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 49
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, i, ' are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Keep Your Mouth Shet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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