This is an analysis of the poem Concentrate On The Game that begins with:
Concentrate...
On the game you play....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCDCD aBAeAE aBDBdE aBCDCDAeAEDBXE aBda abFg aeeFgHdXafaH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,14,4,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 10111 110 1011 010 1111 101 10111 010 01011 010 011101 101 10111 011 10101 11011 01011 101 10111 110 1011 010 1111 010 001011 010 011101 011 10101 11011 01011 101 10111 110011001 110001001 101 10111 10101001 10011111 101 10111101 1 10101001 0010011111 01010011011 0101001101 1011101 01010011001 101 01010011011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your, doing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words don't, do, until are repeated.
The author used the same word concentrate at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word played at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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