This is an analysis of the poem An Assassin that begins with:
. . . They caught him at the bend. He and his son
Sat in the car, revolvers in their laps.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXddXbbXbeaacfabdfa eaccXXcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 1001010011 0101011101 11110100101 0101111101 01111111011 1001100111 1111011101 0111110101 1101111111 11010101001 1111011001 11011101010 11000100111 1111111101 11011111011 0111011011001 1111111111 1111011101 1001011101 0111010101 1101011001 0101111111 1111011111 10111110111 11111111110 1001011101 1011111011 11111100110 11010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1457
- Average number of words per stanza: 275
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, ever are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of An Assassin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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