This is an analysis of the poem At The Other End Of The Telescope that begins with:

the people are very small and shrink,
dwarves on the way to netsuke hell...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccbcXcdXeXcXXaXeccXdfghceXXceegicjhfccXhhjeehhgif
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110111 11010101 11011001 01011010100 10001010010 111110001000 10010100110 100100100 100011101 10101001001 1011110010 10100101010 110101000 11110001 01111100 11010101 1010100101 110101010010 101111 101010100110 11101101 10011001110 110001010101 10010100101 11101010 1101101 1111011101 10001100101 011010100010 110111110 01011011 1101101010 1110101 1111010001 00100100010 11001100 1110101101 110101101010 0101010100101 111001111 110110011 1101111100 10110010 0101100001 10101010 1111101001 1101001 1011100010 11110111 00010010110 0100011001 101010111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2039
  • Average number of words per stanza: 346
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines names is repeated).

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  • summary of At The Other End Of The Telescope;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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