This is an analysis of the poem The Love Of The Game that begins with:
There is too much of sighing, and weaving
Of pitiful tales of despair....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcDcd aeaeadad afafadad acacadadXababcDcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010110 01001001 1011010110 11101011 1011110010 01011011 111010110 11101011 1011010110 01111001 1011010010 11111011 1011010010 11001011 111010110 11101011 1011011010 01011001 1011010010 01001011 111110110 11111001 1011010110 11101011 1110011110 111001101 1111111010 01101011 1111110110 01001011 110010010 11001001 1111110110 111111111 0011110010 00101001 1110110010 01011011 111000110 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, too, much, and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words too, let are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word game at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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