This is an analysis of the poem Sniper that begins with:
Moves in the rocks with inching fingers.
We among the feathery banana trees ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXaXcc XXXbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100101010 10101000101 01011010110 1101100101 01101111101 1101010011 01110100010 1111011111 1101000101010 11011101010 01110101 111101111 1101101101 1011010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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- summary of Sniper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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