This is an analysis of the poem Pick Offs that begins with:

THE TELESCOPE picks off star dust
on the clean steel sky and sends it to me....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX Xa bcbacXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011111 1011111001 010111111 1011001010 0101111100 01001101100 010110010 10101010111 10101010 1000111100 1101010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in are repeated.

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  • summary of Pick Offs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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