This is an analysis of the poem The Game that begins with:

Old courtesans in washed-out armchairs,
pale, eyebrows blacked, eyes ‘tender’, ‘fatal’,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdceceXfffgagXecXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110001111 111111010 1001101101 10110101110 101110011 101110101 1101010101 10011010101 0111010101 1110001110 01010101010 101111110 0010100101 101011101 01100110111 11111100111 1101101010 011100111 11010001101 0111010010 11010100100 1001010101 111111101 0101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1030
  • Average number of words per stanza: 170
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; without is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lips connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Game;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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