This is an analysis of the poem Monopoly that begins with:
We used to play, long before we bought real houses.
A roll of the dice could send a girl to jail....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX aXbXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111110 01001110101 01011111111 11110111 11010011101010 01110000 1111011101 10011001011001 1000011100 1001010 1101001111 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; we is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Monopoly;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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