This is an analysis of the poem Play Again that begins with:
Late in 1962 New York newspapers reported the story of a nine-year-
old child being raped on a roof, and hurled twenty stories to the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb XcadXecfXecgcbfXhXgbdgbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111100100100011 1110110111101000 1 1110011 111101 111100101 110110110 10001111 10011110 10111 111001 1101111 1000101010010 1101011 1101111 00101011 110101 1111 1110111 011101 00011111 10010001 011101 1110101110 01101111 0111011111 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, me, taste, they, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
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- summary of Play Again;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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