This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Play Me Cheap that begins with:
Don't play me cheap.
I'm pure as gold....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD ACBB ead fcX ABCD ACBBe egGCGGF GCGGF ABCDXGCGGF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,5,7,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0111 1101 011111 1111 1111 01001 1010101 001010001010 0110101 1010101 001010100 1110111 010101 1111 0111 1101 011111 1111 1111 01001 1010101 11110 111110101110 1111010111 1101111101 110111 1101 0101010111 11011110100 1101111101 110111 1101 0101010111 11011110100 1111 0111 1101 011111 1101111101 110111 1101 0101010111 11011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i'm, me, my, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'm is repeated.
The author used the same words don't, i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word integrity at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Don'T Play Me Cheap;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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