This is an analysis of the poem The Silent Shepherds that begins with:
What's the best life for a man?
--Never to have been born, sings the choros, and the next best...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXcdXaeaeXffbXgehffffifaf fhdXfgiagbaXdc Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,14,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 10010110101011 00111101011 1001100101 1111101101 100010100010100010 11111111111 10111010100101 101110 0101010010101010010 111100010 11111010011111 1011001010 1111 1101110100 10110110100 11011010111 1001111101111 101 1110100101110010 0101001010010 1110111101111010 1100101010101 1111 1011101100 111011100110 1111111101111110 0111010011010 11101010001011 1100011111 1011010001 10010110100 0101000100101001010001 1001 01110111111011 11010 0001010 10111011010 110100100110101110 1101001011010 1101010010110110 01 0101101011 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 685
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; apothanein, to, thelo, and, in, no, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines philosophers is repeated).
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- summary of The Silent Shepherds;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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