This is an analysis of the poem A Noticeably Aging School Yard Game that begins with:
There comes a time in one's life,
No matter how they were raised......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXX baXbcb abaaba ccbdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 1101101 1110100111010 10101111111 010100010111 100110100010101 1010111001 110100110 100111111 01101000110 00101101110 11101000010110010 10111011 101001000110 101010101 1110000110011100 11000010001111 0101000110111 0110101 1010101 011010 0101 100010 0001000101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; of, it are repeated.
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