This is an analysis of the poem The Game Is Over (Das Spiel Ist Aus) that begins with:
My dear brother, when will we build a raft?
to float down the sky on??...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc deff cgbX XhXf fXef Xaa hXgX efhi dieX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101 011011 111011100110 111 11101010 11101011 111011 111110011 111011001001 11 0101110110 1010101 11001011100101 011011 11111101001 1001000 10011101010101 1010001 1111001101 01010111 101110101 101001110001011 11111010100110010 10101111111 1111010010 0101010010010 00111111101 001001010111 111111 1111001001 1110011011 111011001010 1110111 101101111001 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; age, in, and are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Game Is Over (Das Spiel Ist Aus);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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