This is an analysis of the poem Sightings that begins with:
You would have to be a bat wearing Foster Grants.
Or some shaded eye covering, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcd cde fGfeaed fGXcfG ccXXXcffadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,7,6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000110101 11101100 1010100001 101111 111011010 1101011001 001010110 1000101 100010001001110 10 111100101 10 110100110 10110100 1010100 110101 10 111100101 1010110 11010011 10 111100101 1010101001 1010001 1010101 1001001 1001001 00101 101110101 101010010101 11101 0010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word children is repeated.
The author used the same word sightings at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase children connects the lines.
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- summary of Sightings;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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