This is an analysis of the poem Assassin that begins with:
I exchange eyes with the Mad Queen.
The mirror crashes against my face and bursts into a thousand suns. all over the city flags cracle and bang.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXbdcabd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011 010100111110001011100101111111001001101101001011001101010100110 110101111100100110110011001011010111011010110110101101101 11010101001 010111101011011010101010100111100110010110101010010101001001010 1111010101101010001011100110000110011110110101010000111010001111110110011100100011101000100101000111010001111010111101111100001001111101110101011001110101001 10101010101011011000110 1011110011100000101010010 11101011000100000101101111110001111110101101011111000101110010001 1101000011111010011000101011 11111001110001101110110110 11110001101001010110110111101010100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2218
- Average number of words per stanza: 395
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 184 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 33
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, with, and, of, into, world, sparks, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Assassin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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