This is an analysis of the poem I Played Day And Night that begins with:

I played day and night with my comrades,
and now I am greatly afraid....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab Xac XXd c baXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,1,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111110111 11111001 1101110 11100101 1111010110101 11110110 110111 11101110 111010101000101 1110011 110111 0111110110101 001001110 1011011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, must, i are repeated.

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